In 1647, Blaise Pascal suggests to raise Torricelli's mercury barometer at the top of the Puy de Dome Mountain (France) in order to test the "weight of air" assumption which can be considered as the primitive form of the air pressure concept. This experiment, conducted in 1648, takes place in the backdrop of the controversy surrounding the existence of vacuum and is variously interpreted. Thus, the "weight of air" assumption as a cause of the variations observed during the ascent of the Puy de Dome is not unanimously approved among the scholars of the seventeenth century. We find a similar difficulty among students interviewed after instruction: they struggle in considering Torricelli's device as a measuring instrument associated with the c...
Exact Measurements and Nomadic Instruments: Scientists on the Move and a New Experience of the World...
Ghijsbrecht Donckere is sometimes associated with the invention of the barometer, based on two textu...
In this paper, I suggest that research results from the history and philosophy of modern science pro...
International audienceIn 1647, Blaise Pascal suggests to raise Torricelli's mercury barometer at the...
En 1647, Blaise Pascal suggère d'élever le dispositif barométrique de Torricelli au...
The recognition of barometric pressure was a critical step in the development of environmental physi...
Experiments related to the existence and the characteristics of atmospheric pressure are among the m...
By the end of 1661, while he was carrying out the Torricellian experiment in his new-built air-pump,...
SUMMARY. — It is generally assumed that the 17th-century works about air and its properties were pro...
Blaise Pascal, then a young man, and father Etienne Noel, a Jesuit, held very different views on the...
En 1647, Blaise Pascal suggère d’élever le dispositif barométrique de Torricelli au sommet du puy de...
International audienceIn this article, we first present the conceptions of the atmosphere in the 18t...
2004.—In 1660, Robert Boyle (1627–1691) published his landmark book New Experiments Physico-Mechanic...
International audienceThe ambition of our study is to highlight spontaneous reasoning involved in hy...
The word "atmosphere" was a neologism Willebrord Snellius created for his Latin translation of Simon...
Exact Measurements and Nomadic Instruments: Scientists on the Move and a New Experience of the World...
Ghijsbrecht Donckere is sometimes associated with the invention of the barometer, based on two textu...
In this paper, I suggest that research results from the history and philosophy of modern science pro...
International audienceIn 1647, Blaise Pascal suggests to raise Torricelli's mercury barometer at the...
En 1647, Blaise Pascal suggère d'élever le dispositif barométrique de Torricelli au...
The recognition of barometric pressure was a critical step in the development of environmental physi...
Experiments related to the existence and the characteristics of atmospheric pressure are among the m...
By the end of 1661, while he was carrying out the Torricellian experiment in his new-built air-pump,...
SUMMARY. — It is generally assumed that the 17th-century works about air and its properties were pro...
Blaise Pascal, then a young man, and father Etienne Noel, a Jesuit, held very different views on the...
En 1647, Blaise Pascal suggère d’élever le dispositif barométrique de Torricelli au sommet du puy de...
International audienceIn this article, we first present the conceptions of the atmosphere in the 18t...
2004.—In 1660, Robert Boyle (1627–1691) published his landmark book New Experiments Physico-Mechanic...
International audienceThe ambition of our study is to highlight spontaneous reasoning involved in hy...
The word "atmosphere" was a neologism Willebrord Snellius created for his Latin translation of Simon...
Exact Measurements and Nomadic Instruments: Scientists on the Move and a New Experience of the World...
Ghijsbrecht Donckere is sometimes associated with the invention of the barometer, based on two textu...
In this paper, I suggest that research results from the history and philosophy of modern science pro...