Cavazza, Marta (Author)
Editrice Bibliografica
Physical Details: 296 pp.
Language: Italian
Laura Bassi occupa un posto speciale nella storia della scienza e delle donne. Ripercorrere la sua vita straordinaria consente di comprendere questioni cruciali per la storia culturale del Settecento. Con la laurea, ottenuta nel 1732 all’Università di Bologna, le fu conferita anche una cattedra stipendiata di fisica: com’è potuto accadere in un’epoca in cui alle donne era per lo più negato il diritto all’istruzione? Nel contesto istituzionale e politico della Bologna del tempo, questo libro narra l’origine del mito che attorno alla figura di Laura Bassi si iniziò a costruire quando era poco più che una bambina, fino alla fama internazionale che si guadagnò come esperta di fisica sperimentale. Si raccontano anche i riconoscimenti che, in forme diverse, altre studiose ottennero nella settecentesca “Repubblica degli scienziati”: un primo e importante ingresso delle donne nelle istituzioni scientifiche cui seguì quel “ritorno all’ordine” ottocentesco non ancora superato. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Laura Bassi holds a special place in the history of science and women. Retracing her extraordinary life allows us to understand crucial issues for the cultural history of the eighteenth century. With her degree, obtained in 1732 at the University of Bologna, she was also given a salaried chair in physics: how could this happen in an era when women were mostly denied the right to education? In the institutional and political context of the Bologna of the time, this book narrates the origin of the myth that began to build around the figure of Laura Bassi when she was little more than a child, up to the international fame she earned as an expert in experimental physics. It also tells of the awards that other scholars obtained in different forms in the eighteenth-century "Republic of Scientists": a first and important entry of women into scientific institutions which was followed by that nineteenth-century "return to order" not yet outdated.]
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