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The year 1602 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Thomas Blundeville publishes The Theoriques of the Seuen Planets, assisted by Lancelot Browne.^[1]

Chemistry

Vincenzio Cascarido discovers barium sulfide.^[2]
Commencement of publication of Theatrum Chemicum , a compendium of European alchemical writings.

Exploration

May 15 – Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod.
Henry Briggs publishes his first mathematical work A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetical Declination being given in London.

Medicine

Felix Plater publishes Praxis medica classifying diseases by their symptoms.

Physics

Galileo begins his study of falling bodies.^[2]

Births

March 18 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (died 1679)
August 8 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
November 20 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist (died 1686)

Deaths

July 28 – Peder Sørensen, Danish physician (born 1542)
Juan de Fuca, Greek navigator (born 1536)

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References

↑ Feingold, Mordechai (1984). The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 . p. 50.
1 2 Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 269. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.

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[1] Feingold, Mordechai (1984). The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 . p. 50.

[tt-2] 1 2 Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 269. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.

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