Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe : The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy's Pioneering Female Professor. 1st ed. 2013
- 種類:
- 電子ブック
- 責任表示:
- by Monique Frize
- 出版情報:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013
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- ISBN:
- 9783642386855 [3642386857]
- 注記:
- An Extraordinary Event in 1732 -- "Querelle des femmes" and Debates on the "Woman Question" -- Women in Science and Medicine in Europe Prior to the Eighteenth Century -- Laura Bassi: Her Education and Her Marriage -- The Slow Start of Laura Bassi's Scientific Career and the Bolognese Community's Response to her Work -- A Transition from the "Old" to the New Science -- Scientific Works by Laura Bassi and Giuseppe Veratti -- Laura Bassi and her Networks (1732-1745) -- Correspondence with Men in Science and Medicine (1746-1778) -- Famous Women in Science in Laura Bassi's Epoch -- After Laura Bassi: Women in Science and Health careers in Nineteenth Century Italy.
This book presents the extraordinary story of a Bolognese woman of the settecento. Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778) defended 49 Theses at the University of Bologna on April 17, 1732 and was awarded a doctoral degree on May 12 of the same year. Three weeks before her defense, she was made a member of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna. On June 27 she defended 12 additional Theses. Several of the 61 Theses were on physics and other science topics. Laura was drawn by the philosophy of Newton at a time when most scientists in Europe were still focused on Descartes and Galen. This last set of Theses was to encourage the University of Bologna to provide a lectureship to Laura, which they did on October 29, 1732. Although quite famous in her day, Laura Bassi is unfortunately not remembered much today. This book presents Bassi within the context of the century when she lived and worked, an era where no women could attend university anywhere in the world, and even less become a professor or a member of an academ - ローカル注記:
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