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The year 1682 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
- A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmund Halley successfully predicts its return in 1758.
Discoveries
- Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovered 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 dicotyledons.
Exploration
- René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River, naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV.
Births
- July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)
Deaths
- J. J. Becher (born 1635), German physician and chemist.
- Jean Picard (born 1620), French astronomer.
