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Engraving of Evangelista Torricelli in a 17th-century study, holding a glass tube upright in a dish as he invents the mercury barometer. Books and scientific instruments surround him. Engraving of Blaise Pascal and two assistants conducting a mercury barometer experiment atop the tower of St. Jacques-la-Boucherie in Paris, with the cityscape in the background. Black-and-white illustration showing two hands each holding a glass tube, one being inserted into and one already standing in a dish of mercury, demonstrating a mercury barometer. mercury barometer

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Article title updated for style. Nov 11, 2026
Invalidated site: University of Toronto - Department of Physics - The Mercury Barometer. Sep 02, 2026
Add new Web site: University of Toronto - Department of Physics - The Mercury Barometer. Dec 31, 2024
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