1602 in science

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)