Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy's Pioneering Female Professor /

• Main Author: Frize, Monique. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > History.; Mathematics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38685-5

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 mem...

Table of Contents:

• 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.