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Evangelista Torricelli , 1608-47, Italian physicist and mathematician. He was Galileo's secretary (1641-42) and his successor as professor of philosophy and mathematics at Florence. He invented the barometer (1643), called the Torricelli tube, and a microscope, and he improved the telescope.

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Torricelli, Evangelista (1608–47) Italian physicist. Assistant and secretary to Galileo, he is credited with the first man-made vacuum (the Torricellian vacuum) and the invention of the mercury barometer (1643).

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