1653 in science

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
• March 24 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician and acoustician

  Deaths

• Jan Stampioen, Dutch mathematician