People
Was given an honorary lecturer position in 1732, but she was appointed to the Chair in Experimental Physics in 1776
Laura Bassi
The journal of the Bologna Institute, members of the academy were expected to publish papers on their scientific work in the journal
De Bononiensi Scientarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii
Gaetano tested Laura with disputations in her home in the presence of several members of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, including its president,, and the Archbishop of Bologna. What was she going to be a member of?
A Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
What did Benjamin Franklin do to further understand electricity?
Placed a key on a kite and flew it during a thunderstorm
Founded in 1088, where did Laura Bassi attend as a professor?
University of Bologna
An advocate for Bassi, was a professor at the Institute of Sciences in Bologna.
Iacopo Bartolomeo Beccari
It focused on the development of laboratory instruments and the standards of measurements, published by the Academia del Cimento
"Saggi di naturali esperienze"
What date did Bassi get her Doctorate?
May 12, 1732
Tommaso Laghi, tested reddish ashes by burning two types of wood. What was it rich in?
Iron
Where was Laura Bassi appointed as a member of the city's academy?
Instituto delle Scienze
"Cured" of arthritis
Bishop Donadoni of Sebenico
Laura Bassis’s abilities were presented after her death through a letter
"Elogio" by Fantuzzi
Giuseppe was the assistant to Balbi, was temporarily appointed to this Chair in physics in what year?
1772
What was the concept of vindex?
A complicated scheme of electrical atmospheres and ‘‘vindicating,’’ or regenerating electricity
In which European countries was witchcraft most intense in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
(4 answers, will accept 2)
France, Italy, England, and Germany
A member of the Royal Society of London and a clergyman who worked with negative and positive charges
Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet
Published in 1749 and printed in Venice
"Riflessioni fisiche sopra la Medicina elettrica" by Gianfrancesco Pivati
Who congratulated Laura on August 21, 1733 for her cousin’s success in being admitted to the Collegio Poeti?
Flaminio Scarselli
A jump that happens at the same time from an electrical shock, concluded that electricity moved extremely fast, a theory which was called?
‘Simultaneous affluences and effluences’.
Basilica San Petronio in Bologna
A mathematician who inspired Laura Bassi
Domenico Guglielmini
Sparked the word (haha get it) "electricity", published in 1646
"Pseudodoxia Epidemica" by Thomas Brown
1776
Haller’s theory claimed that there were parts in the body which contracted and transmitted the impression to the mind. What are they referring to?
Laura Bassi gave dissection lectures and wanted a pay raise, where was this?
Archiginnasio