1662 in science
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The year 1662 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- 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
- First attempt to manufacture graphite drawing sticks from powdered graphite (mixed with sulphur and antimony), in Nuremberg, Germany.
Physics
- 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).
Statistics
- c. January – John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in London.
Events
- July 15 – The Royal Society of London receives its royal charter. Robert Hooke becomes its Curator of Experiments this year.
Births
- December 13 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer (died 1729)
Deaths
- April 22 – John Tradescant the Younger, English botanist (born 1608)
- August 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (born 1623)