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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 [[Royal Society|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]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=West|first=J. B.|date=October 1999|title=The original presentation of Boyle's law|journal=Journal of Applied Physiology|volume=87|issue=4|pages=1543–1545|doi=10.1152/jappl.1999.87.4.1543|issn=8750-7587|pmid=10517789}}</ref>

==Statistics==
* [[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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html|title=Robert Hooke|website=www.ucmp.berkeley.edu|access-date=2018-01-28}}</ref>

==Births==
* December 13 – [[Francesco Bianchini]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1729 in science|1729]])

==Deaths==
* April 22 – [[John Tradescant the Younger]], [[English people|English]] [[botanist]] (born [[1608 in science|1608]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/tradescant.html|title=Ashmolean Museum: British Archaeology Collections - Rationalisation and Enhancement Project - The Collectors Tradescant|website=britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006231733/http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/tradescant.html|archive-date=2018-10-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* August 19 – [[Blaise Pascal]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]] (born [[1623 in science|1623]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blaise-Pascal|title=Blaise Pascal {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Inventions|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en}}</ref>

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