Happy birthday to the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4436745646 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #linocut