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This chapter presents five women who were considered highly knowledgeable in science and/or mathematics. Like Laura Bassi, four of them were called prodigies and they achieved international fame during their life: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia from Venice (1646–1684), Gaetana Maria Agnesi from Milan (1718–1799), Cristina Roccati from Rovigo (1732–1797), and Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet from Paris (1706–1749).
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Frize, M. (2013). Famous Women in Science in Laura Bassi’s Epoch. In: Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38685-5_10
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