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Identify the following individual:
Lived: 1608 - 1647
A student of Galileo best known for inventing the barometer, but also known for advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.
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Torricelli's work led to the first speculations about atmospheric pressure, and to the corollary invention of the mercury barometer (from the Greek word baros, meaning weight).
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