oct 15, 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli was born + short bibliography

Description:

Evangelista Torricelli is an Italian physicist born in 15th october 1608. His parents were Gaspare Torricelli and Caterina Angetti. He was in a fairly poor family with Gaspare being a textile worker. Toricelli was the eldest, he had two younger brothers with at least one of whom went on to work with cloth. It is mostly because of his parents that they saw he had remarkable talents and, lacking the money to provide an education for him, they decided to send him to his uncle who was a Camaldolese monk. Jacopo gave him a sound education until he was old enough to enter a Jesuit school.

Added to timeline:

Date:

Images: