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People: Louis XV of France
Location: Kurile Lake Kamchatskaya Oblast Russia

Torricelli famously writes in a letter of …

Years: 1644 - 1644

Torricelli famously writes in a letter of 1644: "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."

Torricelli gives the first scientific description of the cause of wind: “... winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of the earth.”