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    Evangelista Torricelli (/ˌtɒriˈtʃɛli/ TORR-ee-CHEL-ee; Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist...
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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 prove...
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    meaning "weight", and μέτρον (métron), meaning "measure". Although Evangelista Torricelli is universally credited with inventing the barometer in 1643, historical...
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    was discovered (though not in this form) by the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli, in 1643. It was later shown to be a particular case of Bernoulli's...
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    mathematician Evangelista Torricelli in the 17th century. These colourful informal names and the allusion to religion came along later. Torricelli's own name...
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    Italy on 9 January 1960 and served the Italian Navy under the name Evangelista Torricelli (S 512). She was stripped of usable parts and the hull scrapped...
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  • in 1755-77 Evangelista Tornioli, O.S.B. (1570–1630), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Città di Castello (1616–1630) Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)...
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  • Evangelista Torricelli or just Torricelli was the name of at least four ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: Italian submarine Torricelli (1918)...
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  • Torricelli may refer to: Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), Italian physicist and mathematician Robert Torricelli (born 1951), United States politician...
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    proportional to the bulk [moles] of the other.... A disciple of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli reiterated Aristotle's model involving a gravitational centre, adding...
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  • name one millitorr (mTorr) or 0.001 Torr. The unit was named after Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician who discovered the principle...
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  • Evangelista Torricelli was one of four Archimede-class submarines built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during the 1930s. She served in the Spanish...
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    concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle...
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    this problem was first raised by Fermat in a private letter to Evangelista Torricelli, who solved it. The Fermat point gives a solution to the geometric...
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    the Mare Tranquillitatis. It was named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli. The western rim of the crater is broken open and joined to a smaller...
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    were joined by Evangelista Torricelli in 1641. Apart from being Galileo's disciple, Viviani became a pupil of Evangelista Torricelli and worked on physics...
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    Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, Galileo Galilei, Marin Mersenne, Evangelista Torricelli and René Descartes. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pierre...
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    experimental possibility of producing a vacuum in small tubes. Evangelista Torricelli produced the first laboratory vacuum in 1643, and other experimental...
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  • Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli during the German colonial period. Dozens of Torricelli languages are spoken within this mountain...
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    like a complex clock. Natural philosophers including Isaac Newton, Evangelista Torricelli and Francesco Redi conducted experiments focusing on the flow of...
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  • In physics, Torricelli's equation, or Torricelli's formula, is an equation created by Evangelista Torricelli to find the final velocity of a moving object...
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  • Tradescant the younger, English botanist (died 1662) October 15 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647) December – Oswald...
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    dense when warmer, more dense when cooler. In the 17th century, Evangelista Torricelli conducted experiments with mercury that allowed him to measure the...
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  • kinetic theory. In 1643, the Italian physicist and mathematician, Evangelista Torricelli, who for a few months had acted as Galileo's secretary, conducted...
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    the vacuum, later to be demonstrated on Earth by his collaborator Evangelista Torricelli[citation needed], Galileo was able to initiate the future science...
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    as in the case of a stream issuing out of a nozzle (orifice). (Evangelista Torricelli, 1643). It is a place where the cross section area is minimal. The...
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  • weight of air also made possible the invention of the barometer by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643. He also developed a device called a "Thermoscope", a precursor...
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    dense when warmer and more dense when cooler. In the 17th century, Evangelista Torricelli conducted experiments with mercury that allowed him to measure the...
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    collection, including the manuscripts of Galileo and those of his peers Evangelista Torricelli and Benedetto Castelli, were left to his nephew, Abbot Jacopo Panzanini...
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    to make a serious study of the curve. According to his student Evangelista Torricelli, in 1599 Galileo attempted the quadrature of the cycloid (determining...
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