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The year
1662 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Botany
[
edit
]
February 16 –
John Evelyn
presents the basic text of his
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber
to the
College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning
, probably the earliest treatise on
forestry
(it is published in book form in 1664).
Chemistry
[
edit
]
First attempt to manufacture graphite drawing sticks from powdered
graphite
(mixed with
sulphur
and
antimony
), in
Nuremberg
, Germany.
Physics
[
edit
]
Robert Boyle
publishes
Boyle's law
, in the second edition of his
New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects
(
Oxford
).
[
1
]
Statistics
[
edit
]
John Graunt
, in one of the earliest uses of
statistics
, publishes information about births and deaths in
London
.
Events
[
edit
]
July 15 – The
Royal Society
of London receives its
royal charter
.
Robert Hooke
becomes its Curator of Experiments this year.
[
2
]
Births
[
edit
]
December 13 –
Francesco Bianchini
,
Italian
astronomer
(died
1729
)
Deaths
[
edit
]
April 22 –
John Tradescant the Younger
,
English
botanist
(born
1608
)
[
3
]
August 19 –
Blaise Pascal
,
French
mathematician
and
physicist
(born
1623
)
[
4
]
References
[
edit
]
^
West, J. B. (October 1999). "The original presentation of Boyle's law".
Journal of Applied Physiology
.
87
(4): 1543–1545.
doi
:
10.1152/jappl.1999.87.4.1543
.
ISSN
8750-7587
.
PMID
10517789
.
^
"Robert Hooke"
.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
. Retrieved
2018-01-28
.
^
"Ashmolean Museum: British Archaeology Collections - Rationalisation and Enhancement Project - The Collectors Tradescant"
.
britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk
. Archived from
the original
on 2018-10-06
. Retrieved
2018-01-28
.
^
"Blaise Pascal | Biography, Facts, & Inventions"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
2018-01-28
.
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