- Accademia dei Quaranta
The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (‘National Association of the Sciences’) called the Accademia dei XL (‘Academy of the Forty’) is an Italian
learned society which was founded inVerona in1782 .The idea of forming an academy comprising the leading Italian scientists was put forward in 1766 by the mathematician
Antonio Maria Lorgna . By 1781 he had received the support ofAlessandro Volta ,Lazzaro Spallanzani ,Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich and others. In the following year the academy was created as the "Società Italiana", with forty members representing the most important Italian scientists of the period.References
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*citation|title=The Origin of the Academy
first= Giuseppe
last=Penso
year=2004
publisher=Accademia dei XL
url=http://www.accademiaxl.it/storia_persapernepiu_eng.php.External links
* [http://www.accademiaxl.it/home.php Site of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL]
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