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1602 in science

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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.

Chemistry

  • Vincenzio Cascarido discovers barium sulfide.
  • 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.

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)

References

References

  1. Feingold, Mordechai. (1984). "The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640".
  2. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
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