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The year 1682 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmund Halley successfully predicts its return in 1758.

Discoveries

• Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovered the banded pattern of muscle fibers.

Botany

• John Ray publishes his Methodus plantarum nova, which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

Exploration

• René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River, naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV.

Births

• July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)

Deaths

• J. J. Becher (born 1635), German physician and chemist.
• Jean Picard (born 1620), French astronomer.