A barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. Pressure tendency can forecast short term changes in the weather. Numerous measurements of air pressure are used within surface weather analysis to help find surface troughs, high pressure systems, and frontal boundaries.
Although Evangelista Torricelli is universally credited with inventing the barometer in 1643, historical documentation also suggests Gasparo Berti, an Italian mathematician and astronomer, unintentionally built a water barometer sometime between 1640 and 1643. French scientist and philosopher René Descartes described the design of an experiment to determine atmospheric pressure as early as 1631, but there is no evidence that he built a working barometer at that time.
On July 27, 1630, Giovanni Battista Baliani wrote a letter to Galileo Galilei explaining an experiment he had made in which a siphon, led over a hill about twenty-one meters high, failed to work. Galileo responded with an explanation of the phenomenon: he proposed that it was the power of a vacuum that held the water up, and at a certain height the amount of water simply became too much and the force could not hold any more, like a cord that can support only so much weight. This was a restatement of the theory of horror vacui ("nature abhors a vacuum"), which dates to Aristotle, and which Galileo restated as resistenza del vacuo.
Tell me what it’s like to be another dead rose in your
garden
Your apathy annoys me
Tears me apart
You water my roots with cyanide of potassium
You like to see me slowly fading
Annihilating my heart
So what?
Glorify my decay
LAUGH!!!...
At my carrion….
Bloodsucking parasite of my soul, pain in the neck
You’ve found a perfect place to consume…
… my head – now it’s gonna wreck.
But now I’m filled with optimism
You’ll never guess why…
Tonight I’m sailing for Hell with no coming back…
GOOD BYE!!!
So what?
Glorify my decay
LAUGH!!!...
… at my carrion…
YOU!!!
YOU WERE BORN TO RUIN!!!
DEMON WITH HUMAN FACE!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can see there’s no humanity in this cruel world
My heart has turned to a stone