1610

Events in 1610 2

• 1571 – 1610 Caravaggio Baroque · Italy Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610) was an Italian Baroque painter who revolutionised art with his radical use of chiaroscuro (light and shadow) and brutal realism. He killed a man in 1606 and died a fugitive at 38.
• 1610 – 1613 Galileo — sunspots and solar rotation The Sun is not perfect — it rotates and has blemishes Between 1610 and 1613, Galileo systematically observed and published his studies of sunspots, demonstrating that they were features on the surface of the Sun rather than planets passing in front of it. His observations of their movement proved the Sun rotates. The discovery that the supposedly perfect heavenly bodies were imperfect was another blow to Aristotelian cosmology.