LEADER 04000nam 22006735 450 001 9910863191803321 005 20240619142549.0 010 $a3-030-53962-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-53962-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011569087 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-53962-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6397464 035 $a(PPN)252508912 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011569087 100 $a20201114d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLaura Bassi?The World's First Woman Professor in Natural Philosophy $eAn Iconic Physicist in Enlightenment Italy /$fedited by Luisa Cifarelli, Raffaella Simili 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 $cSpringer International Publishing$d2020 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 149 p. 17 illus.) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-53961-X 327 $aLaura Bassi: emblem and record in Settecento science, Luisa Cifarelli, Raffaella Simili -- History of Accademia delle Scienze dell?Istituto di Bologna, Walter Tega -- Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. European traveller and natural philosopher, Walter Tega -- Newton?s legacy: an open field of research, Niccolò Guicciardini -- Physics in the eighteenth century: new lectures, entertainment and wonder, Sofia Talas -- Always among men: Laura Bassi at the Bologna Academy of Sciences (1732-78), Paula Findlen -- Giovanni Bianchi: a sensitive promoter of the world of the women, Miriam Focaccia -- The home laboratory of the couple Verratti-Bassi, Marta Cavazza -- Name index -- Acknowledgements / Credits. 330 $aThis book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed. The book describes Laura Bassi?s research activities and achievements, explaining the influence of Newton, her role in promoting Newtonian experimental physics in Bologna, and her work as an experimentalist, including on electricity. Much attention is paid to the context in which Bassi developed her career. The very considerable difficulties faced by a woman surrounded by male university teachers and members of the Academy are discussed, casting light on the constraints that led Bassi to set up the first experimental physics laboratory in her home, complete with the many instruments required for experimentation and private teaching. The aim is to provide a rounded and well-documented account of the scientific endeavors and achievements of a too often overlooked scientist who struggled to overcome the prejudices of her age. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 606 $aPhysics?Philosophy 606 $aCivilization?History 606 $aScience?History 606 $aPhysics 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy 606 $aCultural History 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aPhysics and Astronomy 615 0$aPhysics?Philosophy. 615 0$aCivilization?History. 615 0$aScience?History. 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 14$aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aPhysics and Astronomy. 676 $a539.7520922 702 $aCifarelli$b L$g(Luisa), 702 $aSimili$b Raffaella 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863191803321 996 $aLaura Bassi?The World's First Woman Professor in Natural Philosophy$91881651 997 $aUNINA