Editing 1802 in science (section)

==Biology==
* [[Pierre André Latreille]] begins publication of his ''Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et insectes''.
* [[George Montagu (naturalist)|George Montagu]] publishes his ''[[Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds]]''.
* In the [[history of evolutionary thought]]
** [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] publishes ''Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivants'', proposing that all life is organized in a vertical chain of progressive complexity.<ref>{{cite book|last=Osborn|first=Henry Fairfield|author-link=Henry Fairfield Osborn|title=From the Greeks to Darwin: an outline of the development of the evolution idea|url=https://archive.org/details/fromgreekstodar00osbogoog|year=1905|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|edition=2nd|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromgreekstodar00osbogoog/page/n175 160]}}</ref>
** [[Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus]] begins publication of ''Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur'', proposing a theory of the transmutation of species.