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1682 in science
List of years in science
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1672
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1673
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1674
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1675
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1676
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1677
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1678
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1679
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1680
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1681
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1682
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1683
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1684
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1685
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1686
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1687
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1688
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1689
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1690
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1691
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1692
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1679
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1680
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1681
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1682
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1683
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1684
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1685
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The year
1682 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Astronomy
2
Discoveries
3
Botany
4
Exploration
5
Births
6
Deaths
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.
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