Evangelista Torricelli
1608-1647
Italian mathematician and physicist best known for inventing the mercury barometer (1644). Torricelli made significant contributions to the development of calculus...
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Evangelista Torricelli
1608-1647
Italian Mathematician and Physicist
Evangelista Torricelli is best known for inventing the mercury barometer (1644) and for his fundamental results in hydrodynamics. H...
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Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)
Italian physicist
As a scientist, Evangelista Torricelli became well known for his study of the motion of fluids, and was declared the father of hydrodynamics by Er...
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The Italian mathematician and physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) invented the mercury barometer and made important contributions to calculus and the theories of hydraulics and dynamics.Evang...
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Born near Ravenna, Torricelli was first educated in local Jesuit schools and showed such brilliance that he was sent to Rome to study with Galileo's former student Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643). Thro...
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Evangelista Torricelli was first educated in Jesuit schools in his native Faenza, near Ravenna. His abilities as a physicist and mathematician were so great that he was sent to Rome for further educat...
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Remembered primarily for his invention of the barometer and his discovery of atmospheric pressure, Evangelista Torricelli worked extensively with Galileo Galilei, refined the method of indivisibles in...
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Born near Ravenna, Torricelli was first educated in local Jesuit schools and showed such brilliance that he was sent to Rome to study with Galileo's former student Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643). Thro...
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Born near Ravenna, Torricelli was first educated in local Jesuit schools and showed such brilliance that he was sent to Rome to study with Galileo's former student Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643). Thro...
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Evangelista Torricelli
Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli