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<h2 id="botany">Botany</h2> <ul><li>February 16 – <a href="/facts/John_Evelyn/3t6ukWq8">John Evelyn</a> presents the basic text of his <i><a href="/facts/Sylva,_or_A_Discourse_of_Forest-Trees_and_the_Propagation_of_Timber/axWy3AsA">Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber</a></i> to the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society/KI5yXCuV">College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning</a>, probably the earliest treatise on <a href="/facts/Forestry/puvod5MV">forestry</a> (it is published in book form in 1664).</li></ul> <h2 id="chemistry">Chemistry</h2> <ul><li>First attempt to manufacture graphite drawing sticks from powdered <a href="/facts/Graphite/sSf3KMXr">graphite</a> (mixed with <a href="/facts/Sulphur/IK0amTfM">sulphur</a> and <a href="/facts/Antimony/YsA7lVgT">antimony</a>), in <a href="/facts/Nuremberg/Bht6TsP4">Nuremberg</a>, Germany.</li></ul> <h2 id="physics">Physics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Robert_Boyle/6tUs448C">Robert Boyle</a> publishes <a href="/facts/Boyle%27s_law/EuguIP5A">Boyle's law</a>, in the second edition of his <i>New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects</i> (<a href="/facts/Oxford/kHvWDTXW">Oxford</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="statistics">Statistics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Graunt/wmoIJJCx">John Graunt</a>, in one of the earliest uses of <a href="/facts/Statistics/DNPsKGYU">statistics</a>, publishes information about births and deaths in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>July 15 – The <a href="/facts/Royal_Society/KI5yXCuV">Royal Society</a> of London receives its <a href="/facts/Royal_charter/9R9nIJDR">royal charter</a>. <a href="/facts/Robert_Hooke/T5sEElp5">Robert Hooke</a> becomes its Curator of Experiments this year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>December 13 – <a href="/facts/Francesco_Bianchini/jNb2PWL2">Francesco Bianchini</a>, <a href="/facts/Italian_people/dsdUeJ1n">Italian</a> <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1729_in_science/zRqc6fHL">1729</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>April 22 – <a href="/facts/John_Tradescant_the_Younger/GTDJ3bxm">John Tradescant the Younger</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Botanist/PaIRoxnb">botanist</a> (born <a href="/facts/1608_in_science/KL4lTYtb">1608</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>August 19 – <a href="/facts/Blaise_Pascal/Huy5LenL">Blaise Pascal</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> and <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> (born <a href="/facts/1623_in_science/I2tlJEws">1623</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>West, J. B. (October 1999). "The original presentation of Boyle's law". Journal of Applied Physiology. 87 (4): 1543–1545. doi:10.1152/jappl.1999.87.4.1543. ISSN 8750-7587. PMID 10517789. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Robert Hooke". www.ucmp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-28. <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html" target="_blank">http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Ashmolean Museum: British Archaeology Collections - Rationalisation and Enhancement Project - The Collectors Tradescant". britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 2018-01-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181006231733/http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/tradescant.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181006231733/http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/tradescant.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Blaise Pascal | Biography, Facts, & Inventions". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-01-28. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blaise-Pascal" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Blaise-Pascal</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>