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Evangelista Torricelli

Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)

  • Fame67.2
  • Momentum15.4
  • Scientists rank#126
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  • Fame67.2
  • Momentum15.4
  • Scientists rank#126
  • Wikipedia9.6K
Lived 1608–1647, aged 39Italy
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  • Era
    1608–1647
    Aged 39
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Updated 2026-06-08

He built the first barometer — not just a weather gadget, but proof that air has weight and the void above it isn't impossible. That 1643 tube of mercury broke two thousand years of Aristotle and handed science a tool it still uses.

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Born 15 October 1608, Torricelli studied under Benedetto Castelli and made his name young in mathematics and physics. In 1643 he inverted a glass tube filled with mercury into a dish and watched it settle at a fixed height — the column held up by atmospheric pressure, the space above it a vacuum. The experiment answered why water pumps failed past a certain depth and introduced the barometer to the world. He also advanced optics and contributed to the method of indivisibles, a precursor to calculus. He died 25 October 1647, nine days past his thirty-ninth birthday; the unit of pressure, the to…

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