biography
| name: |
Torricelli, Evangelista
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pronunciation:
[torichelee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1608–47)
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| biography:
| Physicist and mathematician, born in Faenza, NEC Italy. He moved to Rome in 1627, where he devoted himself to mathematics, became Galileo's amanuensis (1641), and succeeded him as professor at the Florentine Academy. He discovered the effect of atmospheric pressure on water in a suction pump, and gave the first description of a barometer, or Torricellian tube (1643). |
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