1602 in science
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The year 1602 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Thomas Blundeville publishes The Theoriques of the Seuen Planets, assisted by Lancelot Browne.[1]
[edit] Chemistry
- Vincenzio Cascarido discovers barium sulfide.[2]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Medicine
- Felix Plater publishes Praxis medica classifying diseases by their symptoms.
[edit] Physics
[edit] Births
- March 18 - Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1679)
- August 8 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
- November 20 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
[edit] Deaths
- July 28 - Peder Sørensen, Danish physician (b. 1542)
- Juan de Fuca, Greek navigator (b. 1536)
[edit] References
- ^ Feingold, Mordechai (1984). The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640. p. 50.
- ^ a b Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 269. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
