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