Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
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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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- Born
- 1608
- Died
- 1647
- Works
- 13
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- Opera geometrica Evangelistæ Torricellii
- Miscellanea italica physico-mathematica
- Lezioni accademiche d'Evangelista Torricelli mattematico e filosofo del Sereniso
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- The Sequence of the Human Genome
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- NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update
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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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1608 births1647 deaths17th-century Italian inventors17th-century Italian mathematicians17th-century Italian physicistsAcademic Staff of the University of PisaBurials at San Lorenzo, FlorenceDeaths from typhoid feverInfectious disease deaths in TuscanyItalian Roman CatholicsItalian scientific instrument makersPeople from Faenza