title: 1653 in science
text: # 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)
  