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    Torricelli's experiment was invented in Pisa in 1643 by the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647). The purpose of his experiment is to...
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    Inventions: Torricelli's Vacuum". The Science News-Letter. 16 (436): 97–99. 1929. doi:10.2307/3905198. JSTOR 3905198. Driver, R. D. (1998). "Torricelli's Law:...
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    and perfected Torricelli's experiment after hearing about it from Marin Mersenne, who himself had been shown the experiment by Torricelli toward the end...
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  • minimum possible Torricelli's experiment, an experiment named after Torricelli Evangelista Torricelli, an Archimede-class submarine Torricelli, a Brin-class...
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    Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from a hole to the height of fluid...
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  • notable experiments in physics. The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles. For hypothetical experiments, see thought experiment. Bell tests...
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    unquestioned experiments is known to have weight. This test, known as Torricelli's experiment, was essentially the first documented pressure gauge. Blaise Pascal...
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  • by Torricelli's experiment to investigate how the elasticity of air responds to varying pressure, and he did this through a series of experiments with...
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    unquestioned experiments is known to have weight. This test, known as Torricelli's experiment, was essentially the first documented pressure gauge. Blaise Pascal...
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  • Evangelista Torricelli, who repeated his experiment with mercury. Blaise Pascal successfully repeated Galileo's and Torricelli's experiment and foresaw...
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  • determination of the speed of light Stern–Gerlach experiment Torricelli's experiment Wu experiment Some well-known experimental techniques include: Crystallography...
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    philosopher, polemicist and author. He was one of the pioneers with the Torricelli's experiment and published one of the first accounts of it, the Demonstratio...
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    existence of a vacuum, he describes and discusses Torricelli's barometer and barometric experiment with a glass tube closed at the top and filled with...
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    tolerance, Valerianus Magnus publicly performed a vacuum experiment (Torricelli's experiment), which contradicted official European science. In the 17th...
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    science. Valerianus Magnus publicly performed a vacuum experiment (Torricelli's experiment) in Warsaw in 1647, whereas Tito Livio Burattini built a model...
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    problems, including the improvement and use of thermometers, and Torricelli's experiment. Eschinardi showed a keen interest in geography and engineering...
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    tolerance, Valerianus Magnus publicly performed a vacuum experiment (Torricelli's experiment), which contradicted official European science. 1648 - "Flying...
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  • Magno Magnete Tellure 1600 Sir Matthew Hale's Observat. touch. the Torricelli Experiment 1674 Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, de meteoris & fossilbus, Paris 1660...
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    Accademia del Cimento of Florence, who included Galileo's pupil, Torricelli and Torricelli's pupil Viviani. Details of the thermometer were published in the...
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    Pascal's barrel experiment. By 1647, Pascal had learned of Evangelista Torricelli's experimentation with barometers. Having replicated an experiment that involved...
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    Galileo, whose death resulted in Torricelli's appointment to the position, followed by Viviani years after Torricelli's death. Viviani accepted this post...
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  • and multiple experiments were performed attempting to disprove the existence of a vacuum. Berti's experiment led to Evangelista Torricelli's research into...
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    Magdeburg hemispheres (category Physics experiments)
    large copper hemispheres with mating rims that were used in a famous 1654 experiment to demonstrate the power of atmospheric pressure. When the rims were sealed...
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    Delft. The experiment established that objects of identical size, but different masses, fall at the same speed. While the Delft tower experiment had been...
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  • phenomenon being known as the Torricelli vacuum and the unit of vacuum pressure, the torr, being named after him. Even Torricelli's teacher, Galileo Galilei...
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    proportional to the square root of the height of the fluid in the tank. This is Torricelli's law, which is compatible with Bernoulli's principle. Increased viscosity...
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    measurements of partial vacuum. Evangelista Torricelli's mercury barometer of 1643 and Blaise Pascal's experiments both demonstrated a partial vacuum. In 1654...
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    de Roberval (1693). Walker, Helen M (1936). "An Unpublished Hydraulic Experiment of Roberval, 1668". Osiris. 1: 726. doi:10.1086/368451. S2CID 145477013...
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    played a significant part in the theoretical debates and experiments that led up to Torricelli's discovery of atmospheric pressure and invention of the...
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    Charles assisted his childhood friend, the Earl of Buckingham, with his experiments in chemistry and alchemy, with the Earl convinced he was close to producing...
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