1682 In Science

A Comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley , after Edmund Halley successfully predicts its return in 1758

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John Ray publishes his ''Methodus plantarum nova'', which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into Monocotyledons and Dicotyledon s

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René Robert Cavelier, Sieur De La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River , naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV

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