Template:Are You Sure/February 23

• ... that physician and occultist Johann Weyer published works on demons, magic, and witchcraft, in which he applied a skeptical medical view to reported wonders and supposed examples of magic or witchcraft, criticizing the Malleus Maleficarum and witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities, and that Weyer argued that the crime of witchcraft was literally impossible, and that anyone who confessed to the crime was likely to be suffering some mental disturbance?

• ... that physicist and academic Laura Maria Caterina Bassi began conducting private lessons and experiments from home in 1749, despite being a full professor at the University of Bologna, because the University limited her as a woman to one formal dissertation per year (with Bassi giving at least thirty-one dissertations), and that her private lessons and experiments freed Bassi to explore new ideas?