1653 in science
# 1653 in science

The year 1653 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Biology

* Jan van Kessel paints a series of pictures of insects and fruit.

## Mathematics

* Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes a convenient tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, now called Pascal's triangle.

## Physics

* Blaise Pascal publishes his Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids in which he explains his law of pressure.

## Births

* January 16 – Johann Conrad Brunner, Swiss anatomist (died 1727)
* March 24 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician and acoustician (died 1716)

## Deaths

* Jan Stampioen, Dutch mathematician (born 1610) (gunpowder explosion)
