Several of Laura Bassiās theses for the degree of doctor of philosophy showed the influence of Isaac Newtonās works on optics and light. As a physics professor at the University of Bologna, she was an early proponent of Newtonian physics and based her courses on material found in Newtonās Principia. In the 1760s she began performing experiments on possible medicinal applications of electricity.
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