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Evangelista Torricelli

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First name
Evangelista
Last name
Torricelli
Date of Birth
1608
Date of Death
1647
Born in
Faenza
Died in
Florence

Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian mathematician and physicist. He was a pupil of Galilei and also his successor as grand-ducal mathematican of Ferdinand II de’ Medici (1610–70). He is known for his famous barometric test (1643) with mercury in Florence. See: DSB, vol. 13, pp. 438–9; DBI.

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Galileo Galilei

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