Evangelista Torricelli

Type Figure Region Italy Time 1608–1647 Also known as Evangelista Torricelli、Torricelli

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), Italian physicist and mathematician, a late pupil of Galileo.…

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1608–1624Faenza · Emilia-RomagnaBorn in Faenza in Romagna, he was influenced early on by Jesuit education, later studying mathematics and mechanics under Benedetti and others, showing outstanding mathematical talent.
1641–1642Florence · TuscanyIntroduced by Castelli, he went to Florence to become Galileo's last student and assistant; after Galileo's death he succeeded him as mathematician to the Medici court.
1643–1647Florence · TuscanyInvented the mercury barometer in 1643, explained the Torricellian vacuum, proposed Torricelli's law for the speed of fluid issuing from a side opening of a vessel, maintained close correspondence with French scholars, and died young in Florence.

Opera di Evangelista Torricelli — Evangelista Torricelli (1919)
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