1810 in science
The year 1810 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Chemistry
- Chlorine is named by Humphry Davy.
- Cantharidin is isolated by Pierre Jean Robiquet from Lytta vesicatoria (Spanish fly) in Paris.
Mathematics
Medicine
- John Haslam, resident apothecary at Bethlem Hospital in London, produces the book Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, And a No Less Remarkable Difference in Medical Opinions: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, And the Manner of Working Events; with a Description of Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking and Lengthening the Brain, the first full-length study of a single psychiatric patient in medical history and the original description of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
- Franz Joseph Gall begins publishing in Paris, pioneering study of the localization of mental functions in the brain and popularising phrenology.
- Samuel Hahnemann publishes Organon der rationellen Heilkunde, the fundamental text for his theory of homeopathy.
- Karolinska Institute established in Stockholm.
Physics
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his Theory of Colours.
Technology
- June – Nicolas Appert publishes L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales ou végétales, the first description of modern food preservation using airtight containers.
Zoology
- Antoine Risso publishes Ichthyologie de Nice.
Births
- January 12 – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Welsh botanist and photographer.
- April 6 – Philip Henry Gosse, English science writer.
- May 31 – Filip Neriusz Walter, Polish organic chemist.
- July 21 – Henri Victor Regnault, French physical chemist.
- August 10 – Forbes Winslow, English psychiatrist.
- September 24 – Caroline Rosenberg, Danish botanist.
- October 12 – Alexander Bain, Scottish inventor.
- November 11 – Orlando Whistlecraft, English meteorologist.
- November 28 – William Froude, English hydrodynamicist.
- December 7 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist.
- December 28 – John Thurnam, English psychiatrist and ethnologist.
Deaths
- February 24 – Henry Cavendish, English physicist and chemist.
- May 2 – Jean-Louis Baudelocque, French obstetrician
- June 26 – Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French pioneer balloonist.