Laura Bassi: Emblem and primacy
A volume in honour of Laura Bassi was recently presented in Bologna, Italy, at the Accademia dell’Istituto delle Scienze, in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for Education, University and Research, Elena Ugolini.
Laura Bassi, in 1732, became the first female member of the influential Accademia in Bologna. She was the first woman in the world to be appointed to a university chair to teach “universal philosophy” (1732), and later “experimental physics” (1776). The Italian Physical Society and the Italian Society of the History of Science (and as a nice coincidence, both chaired by lady-professors of Bologna University) have chosen to pay Laura Bassi a lasting tribute, providing a memory for the future and a potential starting point for further studies.
The book is a collection of writings by various experts, depicting the personality and work of Laura Bassi. Published in an illustrated bilingual (Italian/English) edition, it is meant to introduce the wider public, in Italy and abroad, to the intellectual legacy that she left us from that distant and marvelous period that was the Settecento.
More information:
Title: Laura Bassi – Emblema e primato nella scienza del Settecento
ISBN 9788877947741
