Anatomie Accademiche III: L’Istituto delle Scienze e l’Accademia

This volume is the third of a series of three publications dedicated to the eighteenth-century materials of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna. It consists of an extensive introductory text

and two documentary appendices. The introduction retraces the eighteenth century history of the Institute founded by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili and the respective Academy from its origin to the Napoleonic reforms and addresses the relationships that linked the scientific and institutional vicissitudes of the laboratory-rooms of Palazzo Poggi to the University and the city of Bologna, by keeping the European scientific landscape of the age of enlightenment in the background. The two appendices are dedicated, respectively, to the scientific diary of the Academy and of the institute between 1705 and 1804, and to the projects, programmes, laws and plans for reforms, which affected the Institute of Marsili during the 18^th century.