1610 in science

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The year 1610 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

• January 11 - Galileo Galilei observes Jupiter's four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. In the same year he publishes his first observations by telescope in a short treatise entitled Sidereus Nuncius ("Sidereal Messenger").
• 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 Krakow, Poland and given as gifts to women after childbirth.

Births

• March 1 - John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
• Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (d. 1664)

Deaths

• Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusan polymath (b. 1549)
• Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (b. c.1500)
• December 31 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)