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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Torricelli

an Italian mathematician (1608-47), noted for his explanation of the rise of water in a common barometer. Galileo explained the phenomenon by the ipse dixit of “Nature abhors a vacuum.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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