Influential life of the 1st Female Professor: Laura Bassi
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Date: 2022-12-27
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Ray
Laura Bassi was a genius but the time when she lived was not the best for a female scientist.
The fact that she is not properly remembered is the consequence of the fact that even today, the contribution of woman in science is unsupported.
Laura Bassi was the Marie Curie of the eighteen century, but little is remembered, even (especially) in her native country.
Many other women scientists had their contributions either unrecognised or attributed to men; think of Lise Meitner, or Rosalind Franklin.
Great video, as usual.
Regards,
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Laura Bassi was a genius but the time when she lived was not the best for a female scientist.
The fact that she is not properly remembered is the consequence of the fact that even today, the contribution of woman in science is unsupported.
Laura Bassi was the Marie Curie of the eighteen century, but little is remembered, even (especially) in her native country.
Many other women scientists had their contributions either unrecognised or attributed to men; think of Lise Meitner, or Rosalind Franklin.
Great video, as usual.
Regards,
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Nicola
Dear Kathy, I am a real fan of your videos and I really love them! And yes, the funny misspellings and pronunciation bloopers add a wonderful folklore effect to the whole narration - though I think that such precise and documented accounts would gain also from precise spellings and pronunciation. I would be really honored to help in this (I am Italian but am bi-lihgual French and have also German up my sleeve, other than English of course. Let me know if you think it's worthwhile.
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Dear Kathy, I am a real fan of your videos and I really love them! And yes, the funny misspellings and pronunciation bloopers add a wonderful folklore effect to the whole narration - though I think that such precise and documented accounts would gain also from precise spellings and pronunciation. I would be really honored to help in this (I am Italian but am bi-lihgual French and have also German up my sleeve, other than English of course. Let me know if you think it's worthwhile.
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Who
All these women in science that I hadn't even heard about before. I come from a family of scientists where there are as many of us women as there are of the men, if not more. All these stories about brilliant women make me wonder how many brilliant women had their intelligence ignored from the day they were born until the day they died, their ideas dying with them. I wonder how much further we could have come in science by now if no one's ideas had been ignored.
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All these women in science that I hadn't even heard about before. I come from a family of scientists where there are as many of us women as there are of the men, if not more. All these stories about brilliant women make me wonder how many brilliant women had their intelligence ignored from the day they were born until the day they died, their ideas dying with them. I wonder how much further we could have come in science by now if no one's ideas had been ignored.
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Sparky
This reminds me of something my dad, a pharmacist, told me, many years ago. When he was in school in the 1940's, when government backed/systematic prejudice and bigotry were still the norm, when there was a woman or minority involved in science, you could assume, that they were quite impressive as scientists, because their greatness had to obvious even to the casual non scientific observer, for them to overcome the unjust norm of the day.
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This reminds me of something my dad, a pharmacist, told me, many years ago. When he was in school in the 1940's, when government backed/systematic prejudice and bigotry were still the norm, when there was a woman or minority involved in science, you could assume, that they were quite impressive as scientists, because their greatness had to obvious even to the casual non scientific observer, for them to overcome the unjust norm of the day.
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Matthew
Wow one of my favorite episodes so far! I wish more of her work had survived. I think the impact if she survived longer would have been huge. I think the debate between Volta and Galvanis supporters would have been short-lived, refereed by Bassi - especially with her power as department head. And what if we had seen another woman get her doctorate under Bassis tenure? Thanks for the awesome video!
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Wow one of my favorite episodes so far! I wish more of her work had survived. I think the impact if she survived longer would have been huge. I think the debate between Volta and Galvanis supporters would have been short-lived, refereed by Bassi - especially with her power as department head. And what if we had seen another woman get her doctorate under Bassis tenure? Thanks for the awesome video!
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steven
I know what Laura Bassi's lost idea was and is. To bring it to the world I need help with how and when the original historical mistake was made. I need your help Kathy as clearly you have references that I have not been able to find. Thank you for your great clips and enquiring mind. Quote from Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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I know what Laura Bassi's lost idea was and is. To bring it to the world I need help with how and when the original historical mistake was made. I need your help Kathy as clearly you have references that I have not been able to find. Thank you for your great clips and enquiring mind. Quote from Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Bruno
Thank you for the video, Kathy! There is another fascinating story of another woman of science, called Sophie Germain (M. Le Blanc, there are some videos about her in the internet but I would like to heat about you how her achievements fit within the science history. People of math claim that her name should be inscribed at the eiffell tower along with the other scientist names.
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Thank you for the video, Kathy! There is another fascinating story of another woman of science, called Sophie Germain (M. Le Blanc, there are some videos about her in the internet but I would like to heat about you how her achievements fit within the science history. People of math claim that her name should be inscribed at the eiffell tower along with the other scientist names.
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Zonnymaka
8: 21 Love you Kathy. but i have to address that one. It's BeneDettinI (from latin: Benedectines, that's the order following the predicaments of Saint Benedict. Yes, that doesn't stand for Little Benedict (tho i gotta love your version: ) ) Greetings from Venice!
P. S. In Italy, the battery is still commonly called la pila= the pile. I'll let you guess why: )
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8: 21 Love you Kathy. but i have to address that one. It's BeneDettinI (from latin: Benedectines, that's the order following the predicaments of Saint Benedict. Yes, that doesn't stand for Little Benedict (tho i gotta love your version: ) ) Greetings from Venice!
P. S. In Italy, the battery is still commonly called la pila= the pile. I'll let you guess why: )
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Physics,
Wow. as always, fascinating video, and it really goes to show how much there is left before we form a truly comprehensive history of science. Its so unfortunate that Bassis publications are lost to time, however, much like with du Chatelet, we can always hold out hope to finding her writings buried in some far corner of an old archive somewhere.
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Wow. as always, fascinating video, and it really goes to show how much there is left before we form a truly comprehensive history of science. Its so unfortunate that Bassis publications are lost to time, however, much like with du Chatelet, we can always hold out hope to finding her writings buried in some far corner of an old archive somewhere.
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John
Wow! What a fun journey to the battery. Having had back pain issues a TENS Unit killed the pains w/o any side effects. Once again religion needs to block science.
Where could we be had Hypatia lived and the library of Alexandria not destroyed?
Home schooling two youngsters?
I bet you're a fantastic Mom.
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Wow! What a fun journey to the battery. Having had back pain issues a TENS Unit killed the pains w/o any side effects. Once again religion needs to block science.
Where could we be had Hypatia lived and the library of Alexandria not destroyed?
Home schooling two youngsters?
I bet you're a fantastic Mom.
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Peter
Good Vid. Never heard of her - to my shame. Come and see the amazing thinking woman? That would have been you Kathy had you been around then. Maybe society has changed more than we credit. We probably would not have heard of her if her husband had been jealous and squashed her. He was an amazing guy too.
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Good Vid. Never heard of her - to my shame. Come and see the amazing thinking woman? That would have been you Kathy had you been around then. Maybe society has changed more than we credit. We probably would not have heard of her if her husband had been jealous and squashed her. He was an amazing guy too.
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Richy's
I am SOOO happy you made a video of her. I have probably read around 100 electronic text books in my time and saw her name in a foot note in only one of them. I did a little research on her and didn't find much.
Great lighting by the way. If you were outside you must have filmed this quickly.
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I am SOOO happy you made a video of her. I have probably read around 100 electronic text books in my time and saw her name in a foot note in only one of them. I did a little research on her and didn't find much.
Great lighting by the way. If you were outside you must have filmed this quickly.
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Robert
I nominate Emilie du Chatelet for your attention. Emilie translated Newton's work into a form that humans could understand. Her treatment of The Calculus is still the basic text in France. She was such a formidable intellectual power that Voltaire orbited around her as her devoted boyfriend.
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I nominate Emilie du Chatelet for your attention. Emilie translated Newton's work into a form that humans could understand. Her treatment of The Calculus is still the basic text in France. She was such a formidable intellectual power that Voltaire orbited around her as her devoted boyfriend.
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Waimar5
At Min 8, 15 there's a mistake, like the english related word Benedict, in italian is written Benedettina. with a d inside. In fact the term came from the name of the pope Benedetto ( Benedict, in italian bene means well and tettina means little tit. Hi from Italy -)
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At Min 8, 15 there's a mistake, like the english related word Benedict, in italian is written Benedettina. with a d inside. In fact the term came from the name of the pope Benedetto ( Benedict, in italian bene means well and tettina means little tit. Hi from Italy -)
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Askey
You did it again Kathy! Laura Bassi will now be discussed in my Physics classes. One of my students informed me this morning that you yourself are a high school physics teacher. Is this correct? I've been teaching Chemistry and Physics (without textbooks) since 1986.
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You did it again Kathy! Laura Bassi will now be discussed in my Physics classes. One of my students informed me this morning that you yourself are a high school physics teacher. Is this correct? I've been teaching Chemistry and Physics (without textbooks) since 1986.
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Nelson
The only class I was ever in where a woman was not clearly the most intelligent person there was a class with four other men.
It is sickening to realize that for most of our history we wasted the better half of our intellect.
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The only class I was ever in where a woman was not clearly the most intelligent person there was a class with four other men.
It is sickening to realize that for most of our history we wasted the better half of our intellect.
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Robert
Absolutely brilliant video Kathy, many thanks, and thank you for introducing me to the incredible Laura Bassi. If ever there was a contender for the title Mother of Electricity then it's her!
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Absolutely brilliant video Kathy, many thanks, and thank you for introducing me to the incredible Laura Bassi. If ever there was a contender for the title Mother of Electricity then it's her!
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Shawn
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked,
I am sure you will find they were very entertaining - Bill Nye
That quote is dedicated to both Laura Bassi and to Kathy - Thank you
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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked,
I am sure you will find they were very entertaining - Bill Nye
That quote is dedicated to both Laura Bassi and to Kathy - Thank you
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Vitor
Fascinating! I am so glad to know a little more about Laura Bassi. It is incredible how you can connect the dots of science when you learn about the history of its development.
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Fascinating! I am so glad to know a little more about Laura Bassi. It is incredible how you can connect the dots of science when you learn about the history of its development.
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spinospinellibass
Wonderful video, I learned a lot about my fellow Italian Laura! Amazing story. The fact that you got Spallanzani's pronunciation mangled up adds fun to culture: -)
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Wonderful video, I learned a lot about my fellow Italian Laura! Amazing story. The fact that you got Spallanzani's pronunciation mangled up adds fun to culture: -)
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