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The year 1602 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Technology (Gr. ...


See also: 1601 in science. other events of 1602, 1603 in science, and the list of years in science. The year 1601 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. ... Events February 14 - William Shakespeare First performance of Twelfth Night on Candlemas March 20 - The Dutch East India Company is established as The United East India Company by the Dutch States-General May 15 - Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod. ... The year 1603 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are listed below. ... The following entries cover events of a science or technology related nature which occurred in the listed year. ...


General events

Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges Oxford University Libraries Service (OULS) comprises over 30 of the University of Oxfords central and faculty libraries: from the world famous Bodleian Library, established 400 years ago, to the modern digital library ventures. ... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

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March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic. ... The Estates-General (Staten-Generaal) is the parliament of the Netherlands. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Bartholomew Gosnold (1572 - August 22, 1607) was an English lawyer and explorer. ... Cape Cod Cape Cod (1033 km²) is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. ...

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Online Etymology Dictionary (2058 words)
To blind (someone) with science "confuse by the use of big words or complex explanations" is attested from 1937, originally noted as a phrase from Australia and New Zealand.
In the science fiction sense, it is attested from 1954.
In political science, attested from 1919 (in Harold J. Laski) in sense "theory which opposes monolithic state power." Gen. sense of "toleration of diversity within a society or state" is from 1933.
Biblio: Historical Geology (6277 words)
Bowen, Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, Science, 295, 2062, 2002.
Banfield, J.F., and C.R. Marshall, Genomics and the Geosciencesq, Science, 287, 605-, 2000.
Collerson, K.D., and B.S. Kamber, Evolution of the continents and the atmosphere inferred from Th-U-Nb systematics of the depleted mantle, Science, 283, 1519-1522, 1999.
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