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Benedetto Castelli studied at the University Of Padua and later became an abbot at the Benedictine monastery in Monte Cassino . He was a long-time friend and supporter of his teacher, Galileo Galilei . He assisted Galileo's study of sunspots and participated in the examination of the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus . Castelli was interested in Mathematics and Hydraulics . He was appointed as a mathematician to the University Of Pisa and later at the University Of Rome La Sapienza . He published ''Mensuration of Running Water'', and important work on fluids in motion. One of his students was Evangelista Torricelli , the inventor of the Barometer . |