Evangelista Torricelli

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Evangelista Torricelli was a 17th-century Italian physicist and mathematician best known for inventing the barometer and advancing the study of atmospheric pressure and fluid dynamics.

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instanceOf Italian scientist
human
mathematician
physicist
birthDate 1608-10-15
birthPlace Faenza NERFINISHED
Papal States NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath fever
centuryOfActivity 17th century
countryOfCitizenship Papal States
deathDate 1647-10-25
deathPlace Florence NERFINISHED
Grand Duchy of Tuscany NERFINISHED
educatedBy Benedetto Castelli NERFINISHED
employer Grand Duke of Tuscany NERFINISHED
era Scientific Revolution NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Torricelli NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork fluid dynamics
geometry
mathematics
optics
physics
givenName Evangelista NERFINISHED
hasConceptNamedAfter Torricelli point NERFINISHED
Torricellian vacuum NERFINISHED
Torricelli’s law NERFINISHED
Torricelli’s trumpet NERFINISHED
influenced development of barometry
later studies of atmospheric pressure
influencedBy Benedetto Castelli NERFINISHED
Galileo Galilei NERFINISHED
knownFor Torricelli’s law NERFINISHED
Torricelli’s trumpet NERFINISHED
hydrostatics
invention of the barometer
study of atmospheric pressure
work on vacuum
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
notableAchievement first mercury barometer
notableWork De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium et projectorum NERFINISHED
Opera geometrica NERFINISHED
positionHeld court mathematician of the Grand Duke of Tuscany
professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
replaced Galileo Galilei as court mathematician in Florence
studentOf Benedetto Castelli NERFINISHED
studied motion of projectiles
properties of the vacuum
workLocation Florence NERFINISHED

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Fermat point namedAfter Evangelista Torricelli
Fermat point solvedBy Evangelista Torricelli
Marin Mersenne correspondedWith Evangelista Torricelli
Robert Torricelli familyName Evangelista Torricelli
this entity surface form: Torricelli