1710 in science

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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").

Physiology and medicine

• Alexis Littré, in his treatise Diverse observations anatomiques, is the first physician to suggest the possibility of performing a lumbar colostomy for an obstruction of the colon.
• Rev. Stephen Hales makes the first experimental measurement of the capacity of a mammalian heart.

Technology

• Jakob Christof Le Blon invents a 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 spiders to produce silk.

Births

• April 15 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)
• April 25 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
• May 18 - Johann II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1790)
• June 10 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
• July 21 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (d. 1792)
• August 20 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (d. 1761)
• September 3 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
• date unknown - William Heberden, English physician (d. 1801)

Deaths

• February 25 - Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (b. c.1639)
• July 25 - Gottfried Kirch, German astronomer (b. 1639)
• September 19 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
• Jean de Fontaney, French Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (b. 1643)