Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo.
17 Facts About Evangelista Torricelli
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Evangelista Torricelli is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.
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Evangelista Torricelli's family was from Faenza in the Province of Ravenna, then part of the Papal States.
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Evangelista Torricelli's father was a textile worker and the family was very poor.
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Evangelista Torricelli then entered young Torricelli into a Jesuit College in 1624, possibly the one in Faenza itself, to study mathematics and philosophy until 1626, by which time his father, Gaspare, had died.
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Right before the appointment, Evangelista Torricelli was considering returning to Rome because of there being nothing left for him in Florence, where he had invented the barometer.
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Evangelista Torricelli left all his belongings to his adopted son Alessandro.
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In Faenza, a statue of Evangelista Torricelli was created in 1868 in gratitude for all that Evangelista Torricelli had done in advancing science during his short lifetime.
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Evangelista Torricelli discovered a law, regarding the speed of a fluid flowing out of an opening, which was later shown to be a particular case of Bernoulli's principle.
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Evangelista Torricelli found that water leaks out a small hole in the bottom of a container at a rate proportional to the square root of the depth of the water.
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Evangelista Torricelli, following in his footsteps, discovered an important new principle, Evangelista Torricelli's principle, which says: if any number of bodies be so connected that, by their motion, their centre of gravity can neither ascend nor descend, then those bodies are in equilibrium.
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Evangelista Torricelli studied projectiles and how they traveled through the air.
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Evangelista Torricelli gave the first scientific description of the cause of wind:.
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Evangelista Torricelli is famous for the discovery of the Evangelista Torricelli's trumpet whose surface area is infinite, but whose volume is finite.
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Evangelista Torricelli tried several alternative proofs, attempting to prove that its surface area was finite - all of which failed.
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Evangelista Torricelli was a pioneer in the area of infinite series.
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Many 17th century mathematicians learned of the method through Evangelista Torricelli whose writing was more accessible than Cavalieri's.