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Evangelista Torricelli | ||||||
Rome
15.October.1608-Florence 25.October.1647 |
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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. |
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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" | ||||||
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| 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) | ||||||