In 1732 Bologna gave Laura Bassi a doctorate, a silver medal and the name of Minerva, then barred her from the lecture hall. So she built the room they would not lend her. On Via Barberia she calibrated glass and quicksilver, tested the limits of Boyle’s Law, weighed water pouring through apertures and drew lightning down from a tower. She trained Spallanzani, shaped Galvani and corresponded with Voltaire. Then history quietly filed her among the curiosities. In this imagined conversation, on her birthday, she corrects the record, confesses her mistakes and explains why a number repeated twice outlasts any crown.
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