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Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.
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science · Italian physicist and mathematician (1608–1647) · mathematician · physicist · inventor · also Evangelista Torricelli, Torricelli
Born 15 October 1608 · Died 25 October 1647 · Q102490
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with the delight ... of one who, having already practiced all of geometry most diligently ... and having studied Ptolemy and seen almost everything of Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Longomontanus, finally, forced by the many congruences, came to adhere to Copernicus, and was a Galileian in profession and sect
Sola enim Geometria inter liberales disciplinar acriter exacuit ingenium, idoncumque reddit ad civitates exornandas in pace et in bello defendendas: caeteris enim paribus, ingenium quod exercitatum sit in Geometrica palestra, peculiare quoddam, et virile robur habere solet: praestabitque semper, et antecellet, circa studia architecturae, rei bellicae, nauticaeque, etc.
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“with the delight ... of one who, having already practiced all of geometry most diligently ... and having studied Ptolemy and seen almost everything of Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Longomontanus, finally, forced by the many congruences, came to adhere to Copernicus, and was a Galileian in profession and sect”
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Published “Optimized survival of hippocampal neurons in B27‐supplemented neurobasal™, a new serum‐free medium combination” in Journal of Neuroscience Research — cited 2,062 times.
Evangelista Torricelli, the former USS Lizardfish, transferred to Italy in 1960 and decommissioned in 1976
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An Archimede class submarine (1934), transferred to Spain in 1937 and renamed General Mola, stricken in 1959
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In gratitude for all that Torricelli had done in advancing science during his short lifetime
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Botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle published Torricellia, which is a genus of flowering plants from Asia belonging to the family Torricelliaceae
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Died 1647-10-25.
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“Sola enim Geometria inter liberales disciplinar acriter exacuit ingenium, idoncumque reddit ad civitates exornandas in pace et in bello defendendas: caeteris enim paribus, ingenium quod exercitatum sit in Geometrica palestra, peculiare quoddam, et virile robur habere solet: praestabitque semper, et antecellet, circa studia architecturae, rei bellicae, nauticaeque, etc.”
Studied at Sapienza University of Rome (1626–1632).
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Studied at Roman College (1624–1626).
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Born 1608-10-15.
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