<>Evangelista Torricelli was the inventor of the barometer. He was born on October 15, 1608 in Faenza, Romagna...(Italy) and he died on October 25, 1647 in Florence, Tuscany (Italy)

He studied mathematics and philosophy at a Jesuit college from 1624-1626.

In 1643 he did an experiment to demonstrate that the atmospheric pressure determined the height to which a fluid would rise in a tube inverted over the same fluid. To the right is an example of this experiment.