Evangelista Torricelli‘s engraved portrait
Evangelista Torricelli was an italian physicist and mathematician who invented the barometer and whose work in geometry aided in the eventual development of integral calculus. Torricelli became the first man to create a sustained vacuum. In his Opera Geometrica (1644; “Geometric Works”), Torricelli included his findings on fluid motion and projectile motion.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, theory, teacher, designer, inventor, treatizer.
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