1810 in science

The year 1810 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Chemistry

• Chlorine is named by Humphry Davy.

Mathematics

• Charles Julien Brianchon proves Brianchon's theorem.

Medicine

• John Haslam, resident apothecary at 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 Matthews) in medical history and the original description of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.^[1][2]
• Franz Joseph Gall (with Johann Spurzheim) begins publishing 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 Organon der rationellen Heilkunde, the fundamental text for his theory of homeopathy.

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.

Births

• April 6 - Philip Henry Gosse (d. 1888), science writer.
• July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault (d. 1878), physical chemist.
• November 28 - William Froude (d. 1879), hydrodynamicist.
• December 7 - Theodor Schwann (d. 1882), physiologist.

Deaths

• February 24 - Henry Cavendish, physicist and chemist (b. 1731).
• June 26 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, pioneer balloonist (b. 1740).

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