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Tor·ri·cel·li  (tôr-chl, tôr-), Evangelista 1608-1647.
Italian mathematician and physicist who invented the mercury barometer.

Torricelli [ˌtɒrɪˈtʃɛlɪ]
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(Biographies / Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647) M, Italian, SCIENCE: physicist, SCIENCE: mathematician) Evangelista (evandʒeˈlista). 1608-47, Italian physicist and mathematician, who discovered the principle of the barometer
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Noun1.Torricelli - Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer (1608-1647)


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288 (1963) (proposing the utilization of available computer programming techniques to identify a certain number of districts within a certain area, by grouping together smaller areas according to specific principles of representation); Toricelli & Porter, supra note 12, at 141; Vickrey, supra note 7, at 110.
10, 2001 With fresh grief and bold determination, Lisa Beamer traveled with Senators Toricelli (D-N.
 
 
 
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