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Evangelista Torricelli
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Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician of the 1600s who made important contributions to our understanding of motion and air pressure. He is best known for inventing the barometer, a device that measures atmospheric pressure and helped advance the science of meteorology and physics.
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- Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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- Faenza
- Place of death
- Rome
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- inventor
- Educated at
- Roman College
- Employer
- Giovanni Ciampoli
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Doctoral advisor
- Benedetto Castelli
- Doctoral student
- Vincenzo Viviani
- Field of work
- physics
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- Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi (circa 1647, Galleria Silvano Lodi & Due).jpg
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- 1608-10-15
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- 1647-10-25
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- typhoid fever
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Encyclopedic overview
Evangelista Torricelli (/ˌtɒriˈtʃɛli/ TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.
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