1653 in science
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The year 1653 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Biology
- Jan van Kessel paints a series of pictures of insects and fruit.{{cite web|title=Ressources Éducatives Libres - data.abuledu.org {{!}} Les ressources libres du projet AbulÉdu|url=http://data.abuledu.org/wp/?terms=Jan%20van%20Kessel%20(1626–1679)|website=data.abuledu.org|accessdate=4 April 2018|language=fr-FR}}
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.{{cite book|last1=McCleary|first1=John|title=Exercises in (Mathematical) Style|date=2017|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|isbn=9780883856529|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NAMmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|language=en}}
Physics
- Blaise Pascal publishes his Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids in which he explains his law of pressure.{{cite web|title=Blaise Pascal|url=http://web.csulb.edu/~cwallis/labs/computability/pascal.html|website=web.csulb.edu|accessdate=4 April 2018}}
Births
- January 16 – Johann Conrad Brunner, Swiss anatomist (died 1727){{cite book|last1=Drüll|first1=Dagmar|title=Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon: 1652–1802|date=2013|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=9783642762963|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-3OBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|language=de}}
- March 24 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician and acoustician (died 1716){{cite web|last1=Robert|first1=Maxham |last2=Joseph|first2=Sauveur |title=The contributions of Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716) to acoustics|website=UR research - University of Rochester|url=https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=28902|accessdate=5 April 2018|date=1976}}
Deaths
- Jan Stampioen, Dutch mathematician (born 1610) (gunpowder explosion){{cite book|last1=Bjarnadóttir|first1=Kristín|last2=Furinghetti|first2=Fulvia|last3=Menghini|first3=Marta|last4=Prytz|first4=Johan|last5=Schubring|first5=Gert|title="Dig where you stand" 4: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on the History of Mathematics Education|date=2017|publisher=Edizioni Nuova Cultura|isbn=9788868128630|page=179|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbY9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|language=en}}