The Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna is an academic society in Bologna, Italy, that was founded in 1690 and prospered in the Age of Enlightenment. Today it is closely associated with th
Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, the founder of the Institute
Jacopo Riccati, who introduced the Riccati equation and was regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 2nd millennium
Pope Benedict XIV was a major benefactor of the institute.
Seventeenth century globe in the Palazzo Poggi
Ercole Lelli
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Ercole Lelli was an Italian painter and sculptor of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. He became noted for his anat
Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
…liberal Diluvianism" of the institute's scientists at this time, who believed in a "balanced integration of science, philosophy and religion." In 1742 Ercole Lelli was asked to supply wax anatomical models for the institute's Museum of Anatomy. In 1743 the institute obtained the donation of the Naturalia Museum…
Ercole Lelli, Self-portrait, oil on canvas