title: 1682 in science
text: # 1682 in science
  
  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.
  
  ## 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 dicotyledons.
  
  ## Exploration
  
  * René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River, naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV.
  
  ## 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
  
  * February 4 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture (died 1719)
  * February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)
  * March 24 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
  * April 16 – John Hadley, English mathematician (died 1744)
  * July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (born 1620)
  * October – J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist (born 1635)
  