Torricelli
Proper noun
Meaning
Torricelli (plural Torricellis)
A surname from Italian
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Because of rumors circulating in Torricelli's gossipy Italian neighborhood, which included that he was engaged in some form of sorcery or witchcraft, Torricelli realized he had to keep his experiment secret to avoid the risk of being arrested.
In honour of Torricelli, the torr was defined as a unit of pressure equal to one millimetre of mercury at 0 °C.
The breakthrough was made by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643.
Carrying on the singing trend was Mia Torricelli, who dedicated a wonderful rendition of “Greatest Love of All” to her role model and the original artist of the song, Whitney Houston.
If, as suspected by mechanical philosophers like Torricelli and Pascal, air had lateral weight, the weight of the air would be less at higher altitudes.
In the Experimenta Nova, Book III, Ch. 34, he relates how he first became aware of Torricelli 's mercury tube experiment from Valerianus Magnus at Regensburg in 1654.