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.
• Lytta vesicatoria (Spanish fly)
  in Paris.

Mathematics

• Charles Julien Brianchon proves Brianchon's theorem.

Medicine

• 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.
• Karolinska Institute established in Stockholm (Sweden).

Physics

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his Theory of Colours.

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.

Zoology

• Antoine Risso publishes Ichthyologie de Nice.

Births

• January 12 – John Dillwyn Llewelyn (died 1882), Welsh botanist and photographer.
• April 6 – Philip Henry Gosse (died 1888), English science writer.
• May 31 –
  organic chemist
  .
• July 21 – Henri Victor Regnault (died 1878), French physical chemist.
• August 10 – Forbes Winslow (died 1874), English psychiatrist.
• September 14 – Caroline Rosenberg (died 1902), Danish botanist.
• October 12 – Alexander Bain (died 1877), Scottish inventor.
• November 11 – Orlando Whistlecraft (died 1893), English meteorologist.
• November 28 – William Froude (died 1879), English hydrodynamicist.
• December 7 –
  physiologist
  .
• December 28 –
  ethnologist
  .

Deaths

• February 24 – Henry Cavendish, English physicist and chemist (born 1731).
• May 2 –
  obstetrician (born 1745
  )
• June 26 –
  Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French pioneer balloonist (born 1740
  ).