Laura Bassi: sounds really cool, and I can't believe no one before Arianrhod mentioned her in the books we've read
Dissertation author: slander!
More seriously, Bassi doesn't get a lot of page time in the dissertation, but enough that I remembered her name and knew facts about her from my reading of it.
Émilie biographers, of course, have no excuse.
*searches*
Okay, Bodanis doesn't mention her at all, but Zinsser gives two passing mentions, including acknowledging that they were both members of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and that Bassi used one of Émilie's books in her classes. Bassi gets far more page time in the Algarotti dissertation (I wouldn't be surprised if this is because dissertation author is heavily leaning on Italian sources, and Émilie biographers more French sources.)
I swear, that poem really was nothing but trouble.
Evidently!
(BTW, Franz Stephan showing up as "Francois-Etienne" in the English wiki entry threw me for a moment before I realised.)
Hee. Not as much as Hans Heinrich as "John Henry" once threw me. ;)
Anyway, all very interesting women, worthy of more research, my kingdom for more time.
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Re: Émilie Tripled
Date: 2020-10-17 08:25 pm (UTC)Dissertation author: slander!
More seriously, Bassi doesn't get a lot of page time in the dissertation, but enough that I remembered her name and knew facts about her from my reading of it.
Émilie biographers, of course, have no excuse.
*searches*
Okay, Bodanis doesn't mention her at all, but Zinsser gives two passing mentions, including acknowledging that they were both members of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and that Bassi used one of Émilie's books in her classes. Bassi gets far more page time in the Algarotti dissertation (I wouldn't be surprised if this is because dissertation author is heavily leaning on Italian sources, and Émilie biographers more French sources.)
I swear, that poem really was nothing but trouble.
Evidently!
(BTW, Franz Stephan showing up as "Francois-Etienne" in the English wiki entry threw me for a moment before I realised.)
Hee. Not as much as Hans Heinrich as "John Henry" once threw me. ;)
Anyway, all very interesting women, worthy of more research, my kingdom for more time.