1610 in science
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.
- December – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first to view sunspots through a telescope
- The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
Medicine
- Diphtheria epidemic in Naples, during which Marco Aurelio Severino performs successful tracheotomies.
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
- Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
- Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist
Deaths
- Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician
- Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusan polymath
- Peter Lowe, Scottish surgeon
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Keralan mathematician and astronomer
- December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician