1510 in science

Medicine

• 1510 Influenza pandemic - Summer – First known influenza pandemic, originating in Asia.

  Technology

• Peter Henlein makes the first modern mechanical clock.

  Births

• October 6 – John Caius, English physician and benefactor
• Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist.
• Bernard Palissy, French ceramicist and hydraulic engineer.
• 'Denis Zachaire', French alchemist
• approx. date
• * Ambroise Paré, French surgeon.
• * Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador

  Deaths

• February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer.