1610 in science

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 The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. == Medicine == Diphtheria epidemic in Naples, during which Marco Aurelio Severino performs successful tracheotomies. == 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) == References ==