The Women Scientists of Bologna
By Maria Cieslak-Golonka, Bruno Morten
Eighteenth-century Bologna provided a rare liberal environment in which brilliant women could flourish
This Article From Issue
January-February 2000
Volume 88, Number 1
Page 68
DOI: 10.1511/2000.15.68
Many of the modern sciences have their beginnings in the 18th century, also known as The Age of Reason, a time of logic, rationality and experimentation. But throughout most of Europe, this renaissance of the mind seemed to have been reserved exclusively for men.
Courtesy of the author; reproduced with permission from the Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna
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