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The year '''1610 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.
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==Astronomy==
* January 7 – [[Galileo Galilei]] first observes the four large [[Galilean moons]] of [[Jupiter]]: [[Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]], [[Callisto (moon)|Callisto]], [[Europa (moon)|Europa]] and [[Io (moon)|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 people|English]] scientist [[Thomas Harriot]] becomes one of the first to view [[sunspot]]s through a telescope<ref>{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot.html|work=The Galileo Project|title=Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)|year=1995|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243 243–248]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243}}</ref>
* The [[Orion Nebula]] is discovered by [[Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc]].

==Medicine==
* [[Diphtheria]] [[epidemic]] in [[Naples]], during which [[Marco Aurelio Severino]] performs successful [[Tracheotomy|tracheotomies]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Armytage|first=W.H.G.|title=Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti|url= |journal=[[British Medical Journal]]|volume=1|pages=1129–30|year=1960|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129|pmc=1966956|issue=5179}}</ref>

==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.
* [[Bagel]]s 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 in science|1685]])
* [[Maria Cunitz]], [[Silesia]]n [[astronomer]] (died [[1664 in science|1664]])
* [[Marie Meurdrac]], French chemist and alchemist (died [[1680 in science|1680]])

==Deaths==
* [[Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani]], [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[physician]] (born [[1548 in science|1548]])
* [[Nikola Vitov Gučetić]], [[Republic of Ragusa|Ragusan]] [[polymath]] (born [[1549 in science|1549]])
* [[Peter Lowe (surgeon)|Peter Lowe]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[surgeon]] (born c. 1550)
* [[Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri]], [[Kerala]]n mathematician and astronomer (born c. [[1500 in science|1500]])
* December 31 – [[Ludolph van Ceulen]], [[Germans|German]] mathematician (born [[1540 in science|1540]])

==References==
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