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Evangelista Torricelli = = = = By Briana Mincks



=BORN: in Faenza, Italy on October 15, 1608= =DIED: in Flourence, Italy on October 25, 1647= = **Background** =

Eldest of the three children of Gaspare Torricelli and the former Caterina Angetti, Torricelli soon demonstrated un
== usual talents. His father, a textile artisan in modest circumstances, sent the b ** oy to his uncle, the Camaldolese monk Jacopo (formerly Alessandro), who supervised his humanistic education. In 1625 and 1626 Torricelli attended the mathematics and philosophy courses of the Jesuit school at Faenza, showing such outstanding aptitude that his uncle was persuadedto send him to Rome for further education at the school run by Benedetto Castelli, a member of his order who was a mathematician and hydraulic engineer, and a former pupil of Ga ** == = =

= **Childhood** = === **When he was a child he grew up in a poor family. He didn't get anything he wanted. he had a lot of chores and no friends. he always felt very lonley. He loved school. he used to walk to and from school when he was little.** === **Education** =** He loved school while growin ** g up.Evangelista Torricelli was first educated in Jesuit school.He used to walk to school and back five days a week. He was a scholar by age 18. He graduated from collage in Rome when he was 39. While he was in school he loved math and science. He grew up to be an excellent mathematician and physician. =

= ** Career **** /Jobs ** -622992982/995295295 = == Evangelista Torricelli was the first to put forward the idea that we live at the b **ottom of an ocean of air. Given the value of the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the Earth, and the fact that there is zero pressure in the vacuum of space, determine the depth of the atmosphere, assuming that the density of air and the acceleration of gravity are constant.** == = **Achievements** =

Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer.
= **Influence on the World** =

He influenced the world like this:
== The mercury barometer's design gives rise to the expression of atmospheric pressure in inches: the pressure is quoted as the level of the mercury's height in the vertical column. 1 atmosphere is equivalent to about 29.9 inches of mercury. The use of this unit is still popular in the United States, although it has been disused in favor of SI or metric units in other parts of the world. Barometers of this type can usually measure atmospheric pressures in the range between 28 and 31 inches of mercury. == media type="youtube" key="4mgSPiAiBjU" height="314" width="560"