Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli); 1608–1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1608
CountryItaly
ocean air bottom
Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.
closed filled glass italian-scientist open vessel
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.