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Evangelista Torricelli 



Rome 15.October.1608-Florence 25.October.1647









 Biographical notes

 
 
 
 
 



1608
Born on October 15 in Rome by Gaspare Ruberti (original builder of Bertinoro, a town perched on a hill between Forli and Cesena) and Giacoma Torricelli (born in Faenza in the Wealthy family whose name derives from the town of Pieve of Torricella at Pideura Faenza.
 

   


1619-24
Study in Faenza at the Jesuit fathers, hosted by Don maternal uncle Jacopo Torricelli, influential abbot.


 


1630-41
(Approx.) worked and studied in Rome with Father Castles


 



1641
He is secretary John Baptist Ciampoli (Governor of Marche-Italy) Roman prelate, and political scientist who followed in his assignments and in the Marches. Helps Galileo Galilei in the last months of life in the drafting of the fifth day of speeches and demonstrations around math Two new science.


   


1642
Ferdinand II of Physicians named him "mathematician, Grand Duke of Tuscany" and "Readers mathematics" at the University of Pisa. "-


(July) becomes a member of "Accademia della Crusca"


 



1643
Get in touch with letters and math Mersenne France, Roberval and Fermat

 


1644
(January) Is entrusted with the "reading" of military fortifications at the Academy of Art in Florence  (3)



(June) carries out experiments to measure the weight of the empty produces "orror vacui" (horror empty), and these produce the barometer.


 


1647
Struck still young from a serious illness, he died in Florence on the night between 24 and 25 October.



The canons of St. Lorenzo "burial honored" to the corpse, which is placed in a warehouse, coming soon dispersed (4)







Note : (1) Letter from Torricelli to GALILEO GALILEI September 11, 1632



(2) Biography by Egidio Feast - Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence, Italy




(3),(4)  Geometry choices Works / Evangelista Torricelli; by Lanfranco Belloni Editor: Torino: Utet, 1975 (p. biographical note. 43)