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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1682|science}} {{Science year nav|1682}} The year '''1682 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events. ==Astronomy== * A [[comet]] is observed, which later becomes known as [[Comet Halley]], after [[Edmund Halley]] successfully predicts its return in [[1758 in science|1758]]. ==Discoveries== * [[Antony Van Leeuwenhoek]] discovers 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 [[dicotyledon]]s. ==Exploration== * [[RenΓ© Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] canoes down the [[Mississippi River]], naming the Mississippi basin [[Louisiana]] in honour of Louis XIV. ==Medicine== * [[English people|English]] [[ship's doctor|naval surgeon]] James Yonge (1646β1721) publishes ''Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable'', probably the first monograph in [[English language|English]] on [[surgery]] of the head. ==Births== * February 4 β [[Johann Friedrich BΓΆttger]], [[Germans|German]] [[alchemist]] and developer of [[porcelain]] manufacture (died [[1719 in science|1719]]) * February 25 β [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1771 in science|1771]]) * March 24 β [[Mark Catesby]], English [[naturalist]] (died [[1749 in science|1749]]) * April 16 β [[John Hadley]], English mathematician (died [[1744 in science|1744]]) * July 10 β [[Roger Cotes]], English [[mathematician]] (died [[1716 in science|1716]]) ==Deaths== * July 12 β [[Jean Picard]], [[French people|French]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1620 in science|1620]]) * October β [[J. J. Becher]], [[German people|German]] [[physician]] and [[chemist]] (born [[1635 in science|1635]]) [[Category:1682 in science| ]] [[Category:17th century in science]] [[Category:1680s in science]]
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