1662 in science

Overview of the events of 1662 in science

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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]

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ "Robert Hooke". www.ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
3. ^ "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.
4. ^ "Blaise Pascal | Biography, Facts, & Inventions". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-01-28.

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