Torricelli

The Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli was born in Rome to a humble and poor family. Although luck was not in his favor, his hard work paid off. He managed to reach the top of the Italian Academy and worked with the great scientist of the time, Galileo Galilei. His curiosity led his country, and then the entire world, towards a solution to a riddle that is more than two thousand years old - what is the nature of the vacuum? Torricelli's way of solving the problem was based on a simple experiment that contained a flask, a glass tube and mercury.