Bologna, Clueb, 1979
During 1979 the Academy of Sciences hosted an exhibition at its offices that displayed scientific instruments, artifacts, naturalistic finds, wax anatomical preparation, some volumes containing the watercolour plates by Ulisse Aldrovandi, microscopes and small telescopes: This constituted a significant part of the scientific equipment the eighteenth-century institute was supplied with, and which over time had gone to enrich the laboratories of the various University institutes born with the development of the modern university in the post-unification period. On that occasion those materials found again a unitary context in the historic headquarters of the Academy of Sciences and were made available as an exhibit to wide number of visitors. The volume is the catalogue of that exhibition, historic in its own way, as it acted as a catalyst for the systematic study of the institutions (the Academy and the Science Institute) founded by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili and at the same time sensitized the University to the impressive and yet little known historical-scientific heritage preserved in its laboratories.
Bologna, Clueb, 1979
