1662 in science
The year 1662 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- February 16 – John Evelyn presents the basic text of his Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber to the College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning, probably the earliest treatise on forestry.
Chemistry
Physics
- Robert Boyle publishes Boyle's law, in the second edition of his New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects.
Statistics
- c. January – John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in London.
Events
- July 15 – The Royal Society of London receives its royal charter. Robert Hooke becomes its Curator of Experiments this year.