Torricelli
[,tɔri'tʃeli]
Definition
(noun.) Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer (1608-1647).
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Examples
- Observations similar to these were made by Torricelli as early as the sixteenth century. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Torricelli in the space at the top of his barometer (pressure-gauge) had produced what is called a Torric ellian vacuum. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Galileo, Torricelli, Pascal, and Sir Isaac Newton in the Seventeenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Through him the discoveries of Harvey, Galileo, and Torricelli, as well as of many others, became widely k nown. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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