Episode 10 - Laura Bassi, part 1

Have you been waiting for an episode where we don't even pretend to talk about batteries? This is that episode. Welcome to 1730s Italy, where only one woman has a university degree, public dissections count as entertainment, and sometimes you have to get married to establish your independence. Sources: Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi by Paula Findlen. Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe - lecture by Monique Frize. Anna Morandi’s Wax Self-Portrait with Brain by Rebecca Messbarger. The Desire to Contribute: An Eighteenth-Century Italian Woman of Science by Gabriella Berti Logan.

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Episode 10 - Laura Bassi, part 1 is an episode from Battery Chattery by Hope Wilson & Ana Rigney.

This episode is 26:21 long.

This episode was published on May 2, 2018.

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