- 1702 in science
The year 1702 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Astronomy
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April 20 -Comet of 1702 (C/1702 H1): The 10th-closest comet approach in history, it missed Earth by a distance of 0.0437 AU (6,537,000 km). [cite web |url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/historic_comets.html |title=Historic Comet Close Approaches |publisher=NASA |accessdate=2008-01-06]
* David Gregory publishes the first textbook, "Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa", that appliesIsaac Newton 's principles of motions toastronomy . [cite web |url=http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0210dgr.html |title=Archives Hub: Papers of David Gregory (1661-1708) |publisher=Archives Hub |accessdate=2008-01-06]Technology
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fountain pen was developed by FrenchmanM. Bion . [cite paper |last=Narayanan |first=Vivek |title=Patent and Trademark History in the Fountain Pen Industry |version= |publisher= |date=2005-05-18 |url=http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/narayana/Academics/Intellectual_Property/termpaper.pdf |accessdate=2008-01-06]Births
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Thomas Bayes , English mathematician (died 1761)
* "undated" -George Martine , Scottish physician and scientist (died 1741) [cite book |title=Dictionary of National Biography , Volume XXXVI |editor=Lee, Sydney |year=1893 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |page=308 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-yUJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=%22george+martine%22&source=web&ots=wWPxslHgGf&sig=hlz31vM-j1of77FYIsWLk1BNI1A#PPA308,M1]Deaths
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Olof Rudbeck , Swedish physiologist who discovered that the thoracic duct is connected to the intestinal lymphatics (born 1630)References
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