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Evangelista Torricelli

Italian Scientist

Born: Oct 15, 1608

Died: Oct 25, 1647

Being Being There Column Enough Long Nature

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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature. Evangelista Torricelli

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? Evangelista Torricelli

Me Balance World Wish Distance Considering Out Carry Would Prevent Abstraction Freely Beyond Intellect Privilege Infinite Hanging Confines Then Means Special Who Figures Imagined

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. Evangelista Torricelli

Made Long Closed Finger Inverted Open Mercury Glass Were End Vessel Tubes Where Then Many Filled Two

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? Evangelista Torricelli

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