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Thus in the Torricellian experiment you cannot see the pressure of the air, but the height of the column of mercury is an indicator of that invisible pressure.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Between the recognition that the Torricellian tube is a pressure gauge and the invention of the atmospheric steam engine there was no intervention of an extraneous factor.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But Petit together with Pascal replicated the Torricellian experiment independently, and Valerio Magni in Warsaw either replicated it in 1647 or reinvented it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The simple truth is that replication of the Torricellian experiment was unproblematic; it follows that the sociologists of science are wrong.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton