Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647). Evangelista Torricelli was born on 15 October 1608 in what is now Italy. Evangelista Torricelli is remembered as a mathematician, physicist and inventor, a citizen of Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Notable works include “Opera Geometrica”, “Torricelli's law” and “Gabriel's Horn”.
Before and after
- 15 July 1606Birth of Rembrandt
- 25 April 1607Battle of Gibraltar
- May 1607Jamestown
- 1608Publication of King Lear
- 15 October 1608Birth of Evangelista Torricelli
- 9 December 1608Birth of John Milton
- 1609The Elevation of the Cross
- 1609Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- from 1609 to 1924American Indian Wars
More in Science & technology
- 1543De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- 1637Descartes publishes La Geometrie: algebra meets geometry
- 21 June 1646Birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 15 April 1707Birth of Leonhard Euler
- 20 March 1727Death of Isaac Newton
- 28 August 1749Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The era
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