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The year '''1710 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Events==
* The [[Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala]] is founded in [[Uppsala]], Sweden, as the ''Collegium curiosorum'' ("College of the Curious").

==Astronomy==
* [[Edmond Halley]], comparing his observations with [[Ptolemy]]'s [[Almagest|catalog]], discovers the proper motion of some "fixed" stars.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/halley.html|title=Edmond Halley (1656-1742)}}</ref><ref>* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Halley}}</ref>

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[Alexis Littré]], in his treatise ''Diverses observations anatomiques'', is the first physician to suggest the possibility of performing a [[lumbar]] [[colostomy]] for an obstruction of the [[colon (anatomy)|colon]].
* [[Stephen Hales]] makes the first experimental measurement of the capacity of a mammalian heart.<ref>[[Werner Forssmann|Forssmann, Werner]]. Nobel Lecture in Physiology or Medicine, 1956.</ref>

==Technology==
* [[Jakob Christof Le Blon]] invents a [[color printing|three-color printing]] process with red, blue, and yellow ink. Years later he adds black introducing the earliest [[four-color printing]] process.

==Zoology==
* [[René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur]] produces a paper on the use of [[spider]]s to produce [[silk]].

==Publications==
* [[John Arbuthnot]] publishes "An argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant regularity observed in the births of both sexes" in ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Arbuthnott|first1=J.|title=An Argument for Divine Providence, Taken from the Constant Regularity Observ'd in the Births of Both Sexes. By Dr. John Arbuthnott, Physitian in Ordinary to Her Majesty, and Fellow of the College of Physitians and the Royal Society|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|date=1 January 1710|volume=27|issue=325–336|pages=186–190|doi=10.1098/rstl.1710.0011|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1432176|doi-access=free}} [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/arbuthnot.pdf Reprint].</ref>

==Births==
[[File:Equatorial telescope.png|thumb|James Short's telescope]]
* April 15 – [[William Cullen]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[physician]] and [[chemist]] (died [[1790 in science|1790]])<ref>{{cite web |title=William Cullen {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/college-history/william-cullen |website=www.rcpe.ac.uk |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref>
* April 25 – [[James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)|James Ferguson]], Scottish [[astronomer]] (died [[1776 in science|1776]])
* May 18 – [[Johann II Bernoulli]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] (died 1790)
* June 10 – [[James Short (mathematician)|James Short]], Scottish mathematician and [[optician]] (died [[1768 in science|1768]])
* July 21 – [[Paul Möhring]], German physician and [[zoologist]] (died [[1792 in science|1792]])
* August 13 – [[William Heberden]], English physician who gives the first description of [[angina pectoris]] (died [[1801 in science|1801]])
* August 20 – [[Thomas Simpson]], English mathematician (died [[1761 in science|1761]])
* September 3 – [[Abraham Trembley]], [[Republic of Geneva|Genevan]] [[naturalist]] (died [[1784 in science|1784]])

==Deaths==
* February 25 – [[Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut]], French explorer (born c. 1639)
* July 25 – [[Gottfried Kirch]], German astronomer (born [[1639 in science|1639]])
* September 23 – [[Ole Rømer]], [[Danes|Danish]] astronomer (born [[1644 in science|1644]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Ole Rømer – Danish astronomer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ole-Romer|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=3 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jean de Fontaney]], French [[Jesuit]] mathematician and astronomer (born [[1643 in science|1643]])

==References==
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