1682 in science explained
The year 1682 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Discoveries
Botany
- John Ray publishes his Methodus plantarum nova, which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
Exploration
Medicine
- English naval surgeon James Yonge (1646–1721) publishes Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable, probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head.
Births
Deaths