University of Padua

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Occupation Patricia Beer
Her parents had intended her from childhood to be a teacher. In fact her first job was that of lecturer at the University of Padua in Italy.

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1543: Andreas Vesalius, professor of anatomy at...

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1543

Andreas Vesalius , professor of anatomy at Padua University, published De humani corporis fabrica, and Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus.
Laqueur, Thomas. “Even Immortality”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 3-9.
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Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the...

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1678-06-25

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to be awarded an academic degree (although Dorotea Bocchi had been appointed to an academic chair almost three hundred years before this).
Stevenson, Angus, and Christine A. Lindberg, editors. “Cornaro Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia”. New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2015.
Maschietto, Francesco Ludovico. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684). Translator Vairo, Jan, Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2007.
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