Editing 1653 in science

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

==Biology==
*[[Jan van Kessel, senior|Jan van Kessel]] paints a series of pictures of insects and fruit.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* [[Blaise Pascal]] publishes his ''Traité du triangle arithmétique'' in which he describes a convenient tabular presentation for [[binomial coefficient]]s, now called [[Pascal's triangle]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Physics==
* [[Blaise Pascal]] publishes his ''Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids'' in which he explains [[Pascal's law|his law of pressure]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Blaise Pascal|url=http://web.csulb.edu/~cwallis/labs/computability/pascal.html|website=web.csulb.edu|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>

==Births==
* January 16 – [[Johann Conrad Brunner]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1727 in science|1727]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* March 24 – [[Joseph Sauveur]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] and [[acoustician]] (died [[1716 in science|1716]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen|Jan Stampioen]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] mathematician (born [[1610 in science|1610]]) (gunpowder explosion)<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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