1702 in science
Encyclopedia
The year 1702 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- April 20 - Comet of 1702 (C/1702 H1): The 10th-closest comet approach in history, it missed Earth by a distance of 0.0437 AUAstronomical unitAn astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
(6,537,000 km). - David Gregory publishes the first textbook, Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa, the first astronomyAstronomyAstronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
textbook based on Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
's principles of motions and theory of gravitation.
Births
- November 5 - Edward Stone, EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
polymathPolymathA polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
(died 17681768 in scienceThe year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Biology:* Caspar Friedrich Wolff begins publication of "De Formatione Intestinarum" in the Mémoires of The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant...
) - (c. 1702) - Thomas BayesThomas BayesThomas Bayes was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem...
, English mathematician (died 17611761 in scienceThe year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.-Astronomy:* June 6 - The first transit of Venus since Edmond Halley suggested that its observation could determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for...
) - undated - George Martine, Scottish physician and scientist (died 17411741 in scienceThe year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Medicine:* Nicolas Andry publishes Orthopédie, giving a name to the discipline of orthopedics.-Births:...
)
Deaths
- Olof Rudbeck, Swedish physiologist who discovered that the thoracic duct is connected to the intestinal lymphatics (born 16301630 in scienceThe year 1630 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Technology:* Cornelius Drebbel produces an early form of magic lantern or slide projector.-Births:* September 13 - Olof Rudbeck, Swedish physiologist...
) - Clopton HaversClopton HaversClopton Havers was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres.-Biography:He was born Stambourne, Essex,...
, English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone (born 16571657 in scienceThe year 1657 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Mathematics:* Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae .-Medicine:...
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