发明水银气压计的意大利物理学家。
Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer .
托里切利在水银气压计方面的研究表明大气的压力可以让气压计中的水银柱上升30多英尺。
Torricelli 's work on water barometers showed that the pressure of the atmosphere could balance a column of water just over 30 feet in height .