It happened 375 years ago. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the mercury barometer in 1643. And surprisingly, it was amazingly similar to the mercury barometers in use today.

It happened 375 years ago. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the mercury barometer in 1643. And surprisingly, it was amazingly similar to the mercury barometers in use today.

AT the University of Toronto on October 19, two meetings were held to commemorate the invention of the barometer by Torricelli, three hundred years ago. Last spring, the Canadian Branch of the Royal ...

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