1610 in science

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

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Medicine
3 Technology
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

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.^[1]

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)
December 31 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)

References

^ Armytage, W.H.G. (1960). "Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti". British Medical Journal 1 (5179): 1129–30. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129. PMC 1966956. http://www.bmj.com/content/1/5179/1129.full.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-17.