"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
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After his invention of the barometer in 1643–45. Quoted in Terry Breverton (ed.) Immortal Words: History's Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them (Quercus, 2009) p. 101
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Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli (15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician.
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