Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli); 1608–1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1608
CountryItaly
doe resistance vacuums
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
closed filled glass italian-scientist open vessel
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
ocean air bottom
Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.
mean science special
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
air weight mercury
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
air wind two
winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.