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thumb | right | alt=Title page of Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei | Title page of Sidereus Nuncius (1610), by Galileo Galilei The year '''1610 in science''' and technology involved some significant events. <!-- formerly (18apr07): ''See also:'' 1609 in science, other events of 1610, 1611 in science and the list of years in science. -->
==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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot.html|work=The Galileo Project|title=Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)|year=1995|accessdate=2012-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243 243–248]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243}}</ref> * The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
==Medicine== * Diphtheria epidemic in Naples, during which Marco Aurelio Severino performs successful tracheotomies.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Armytage|first=W.H.G.|title=Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti|url= |journal=British Medical Journal|volume=1|pages=1129–30|year=1960|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129|pmc=1966956|issue=5179}}</ref>
==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 Kraków, Poland and given as gifts to women after childbirth.
==Births== * February 2 – Pierre Bourdelot, French physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (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)
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