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Bolognia [[Bologna]]

July 20 AM.

This morning at 6 OClock
went to see ye [the] Students of Painting copying
Nature from ye [the] Life - at the Academia
Clementina, where a naked man
~~was~~ presented himself for two hours,
in Such Posture as ye [the] Master thought fit
the Students should delineate -

This is done three times a Week;
so long the Attitude is the Same; w'ch [which] is
changed every week -

After Breakfast paid a Visit to
the celebrated Doctress & Professor of Natur
Philosophy [[Laura Maria Catherina
Bassi]] [[Laura Bassi]], who was employ'd [employed] at our coming
in giving Lectures upon light & Colours,
shewing the 4 primary orginal Colours, w'ch [which]
she said were red, yellow, blue & green,
the purple orange & violet being compound'd [compounded]
of these - She made several curious
Experiments upon Phosphori, & to shew the
reflection of light in approaching the
surface of Bodies - ie ye [the] attract'n [attraction]

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