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Title page of Sidereus Nuncius (1610), by Galileo Galilei
The year
1610 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
January 7 –
Galileo Galilei
first observes the four large
Galilean moons
of
Jupiter
:
Ganymede
,
Callisto
,
Europa
and
Io
, although he is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following night. In the same year he publishes his first observations by
telescope
in a short treatise entitled
Sidereus Nuncius
("Sidereal Messenger").
December –
English
scientist
Thomas Harriot
becomes one of the first to view
sunspots
through a telescope
[1]
[2]
The
Orion Nebula
is discovered by
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
.
Medicine
Diphtheria
epidemic
in
Naples
, during which
Marco Aurelio Severino
performs successful
tracheotomies
.
[3]
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
February 2 –
Pierre Bourdelot
, French physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (died
1685
)
March 1 –
John Pell
,
English
mathematician
(died
1685
)
Maria Cunitz
,
Silesian
astronomer
(died
1664
)
Marie Meurdrac
, French chemist and alchemist (died
1680
)
Deaths
Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani
,
Moroccan
physician
(born
1548
)
Nikola Vitov Gučetić
,
Ragusan
polymath
(born
1549
)
Peter Lowe
,
Scottish
surgeon
(born c. 1550)
Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri
,
Keralan
mathematician and astronomer (born c.
1500
)
December 31 –
Ludolph van Ceulen
,
German
mathematician (born
1540
)
References
^
"Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)"
.
The Galileo Project
. 1995
. Retrieved
2012-07-04
.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
243–248
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
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
.
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