Evangelista Torricelli: We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

-- Evangelista Torricelli


		Name: Evangelista Torricelli Type: Scientist Nationality: Italian Birth: October 15, 1608 Death: October 25, 1647

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