This painting of the Italian physicist and mathematician, Evangelista Torricelli, is by Lorenzo Lippi (circa 1647).
Use this timeline for a look at some of the historical aspects in the development of our understanding of gases and plasmas. 1644 – Invention of the barometer Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) ...
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