Study of Weather Advances due to Technological Advances
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specialist to calculate salt percentages that were found in rivers which would lead to the seawater over many years. This led to the prediction the Earth’s age. The map also displays trade winds, prevailing winds, and wind systems that would benefit sailors. Halley used the law of gravitation, which was discovered by Isaac Newton, to predict the orbits of the comets from their noted positions in the sky. This creation will allow technology to evolve.
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In other news across the globe in Italy, Evangelista Torricelli has created the first mercury barometer. This barometer is used to measure atmosphere pressure. Torricelli invented the barometer by accident. His initial goal was to construct a mercury filled vacuum tube. As he continued to experiment, he notices that the mercury levels would vary depending on the atmosphere pressure. With these observations the barometer was officially created
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and is one of the newest inventions of the sixteenth century. The barometer works with the equalizing standards of the mercury’s weight in a glass tube with the atmosphere pressure. If the weight of the mercury is more than the air pressure, the mercury level lowers down in the glass, and if the mercury weight is less than the air pressure, then the mercury level escalates up the glass tube.
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