1610 in science
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The year 1610 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four large Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, although he is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following night. In the same year he publishes his first observations by telescope in a short treatise entitled Sidereus Nuncius ("Sidereal Messenger").
- December – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first to view sunspots through a telescope[1][2]
- The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
Medicine
- Diphtheria epidemic in Naples, during which Marco Aurelio Severino performs successful tracheotomies.[3]
Technology
- Jean Beguin publishes Tyrocinium Chymicum, the first book of chemistry lectures.
- Tinsel is invented by a German silversmith, who uses real silver for the metal strands.
- Bagels are created in Kraków, Poland and given as gifts to women after childbirth.
Births
- February 2 – Pierre Bourdelot, French physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (died 1685)
- Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (died 1664)
- Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (died 1680)
Deaths
- Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician (born 1548)
- Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusan polymath (born 1549)
- Peter Lowe, Scottish surgeon (born c. 1550)
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1500)
- December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (born 1540)