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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|''Lytta vesicatoria'' (Spanish fly)]] in Paris.

==Mathematics==
* [[Charles Julien Brianchon]] proves [[Brianchon's theorem]].

==Medicine==
* [[John Haslam (physician)|John Haslam]], resident [[apothecary]] at [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|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 ([[James Tilly Matthews|James Matthews]]) in medical history and the original description of the symptoms of [[paranoid schizophrenia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Heinrichs|first=R.W.|title=Historical origins of schizophrenia: two early madmen and their illness|journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences|volume=39|pages=349–63|year=2003|pmid=14601041|doi=10.1002/jhbs.10152|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Howard|first=Robert|title=Psychiatry in pictures|journal=[[British Journal of Psychiatry]]|year=2001|url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/179/3/0|accessdate=2008-01-31|doi=10.1192/bjp.179.3.0|volume=179|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Franz Joseph Gall]] (with [[Johann Spurzheim]]) begins publishing ''[http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/texts/gall_anatomie1.rtf Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général et anatomie du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnoître plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de l'homme et des animaux, par la configuration de leurs têtes]'' in [[Paris]], pioneering study of the localization of mental functions in the brain and popularising [[phrenology]].
* [[Samuel Hahnemann]] publishes ''[[The Organon of the Healing Art|Organon der rationellen Heilkunde]]'', the fundamental text for his theory of [[homeopathy]].
* [[Karolinska Institute]] established in [[Stockholm]] (Sweden).

==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]] (died [[1882 in science|1882]]), [[Welsh people|Welsh]] botanist and photographer.
* April 6 – [[Philip Henry Gosse]] (died [[1888 in science|1888]]), English [[science]] writer.
* May 31 – [[Filip Neriusz Walter]] (died [[1847 in science|1847]]), [[Polish people|Polish]] [[organic chemist]]. 
* July 21 – [[Henri Victor Regnault]] (died [[1878 in science|1878]]), French physical [[chemist]].
* August 10 – [[Forbes Winslow]] (died [[1874 in science|1874]]), English [[psychiatrist]].
* September 14 – [[Caroline Rosenberg]] (died [[1902 in science|1902]]), Danish botanist.
* October 12 – [[Alexander Bain (inventor)|Alexander Bain]] (died [[1877 in science|1877]]), [[Scottish people|Scottish]] inventor.
* November 11 – [[Orlando Whistlecraft]] (died [[1893 in science|1893]]), English [[meteorologist]].
* November 28 – [[William Froude]] (died [[1879 in science|1879]]), English hydrodynamicist.
* December 7 – [[Theodor Schwann]] (died 1882), [[Germans|German]] [[physiologist]].
* December 28 – [[John Thurnam]] (died [[1873 in science|1873]]), English psychiatrist and [[ethnologist]].

==Deaths==
* February 24 – [[Henry Cavendish]], [[English people|English]] [[physicist]] and chemist (born [[1731 in science|1731]]).
* May 2 – [[Jean-Louis Baudelocque]], [[French people|French]] [[obstetrician]] (born [[1745 in science|1745]])
* June 26 – [[Montgolfier Brothers|Joseph Michel Montgolfier]], French pioneer balloonist (born [[1740 in science|1740]]).

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