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The year '''1702 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] 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 [[astronomical unit|AU]] (6,537,000&nbsp;km).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/historic_comets.html |title=Historic Comet Close Approaches |publisher=NASA |accessdate=2008-01-06|url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109135952/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/historic_comets.html| archivedate=9 January 2008 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* May 5 – Globular cluster [[Messier 5]] (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.
* [[David Gregory (mathematician)|David Gregory]] publishes the first textbook, ''Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa'', the first [[astronomy]] textbook based on [[Isaac Newton]]'s principles of motions and theory of gravitation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bunch |first=Bryan H. |author2=Alexander Hellemans |title=The history of science and technology: a browser's guide to the great discoveries, inventions, and the people who made them, from the dawn of time to today |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2004 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618221233/page/776 776] pages |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618221233 |url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-618-22123-3|accessdate= 30 July 2010 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0210dgr.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718164620/http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0210dgr.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-18 |title=Archives Hub: Papers of David Gregory (1661–1708) |publisher=[[Archives Hub]] |accessdate=2008-01-06 }}</ref>

==Technology==
* A [[fountain pen]] is developed by French instrument-maker [[Nicholas Bion]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Narayanan|first=Vivek|title=Patent and Trademark History in the Fountain Pen Industry|date=2005-05-18|url=http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/narayana/Academics/Intellectual_Property/termpaper.pdf|accessdate=2024-12-12|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040228150710/http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/narayana/Academics/Intellectual_Property/termpaper.pdf|archivedate=2004-02-28|via=Wayback Machine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vintagepens.com/FAQhistory/who_invented_fountain_pen.shtml|title=Who invented the fountain pen?|work=vintagepens.com|accessdate=2024-12-12}}</ref>
* [[Pierre Varignon]] applies [[calculus]] to spring-driven clocks.

==Births==
* November 5 – [[Edward Stone (clergyman)|Edward Stone]], English [[polymath]] (died [[1768 in science|1768]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Ralph|last=Mann|title=Stone, Edward (1702–1768)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/38014|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38014|accessdate=2011-02-17}}</ref>
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** [[Giuseppa Barbapiccola]], Italian natural philosopher, poet and translator (died [[1740 in science|1740]])
** [[Benjamin Stillingfleet]], English botanist (died [[1771 in science|1771]])

==Deaths==
* April – [[Clopton Havers]], English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone  (born [[1657 in science|1657]])
* December 12 – [[Olof Rudbeck]], Swedish physiologist who discovered that the thoracic duct is connected to the intestinal lymphatics (born [[1630 in science|1630]])

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