Hypatia, look around you.
Synesius sent Hypatia a letter describing a hydrometer, and requesting
her to have one constructed for him.
In March 415, Hypatia was killed by a mob of fanatical Christian
monks in particularly horrible fashion.
Synesius also sent Hypatia a letter describing a hydrometer, and
requesting her to have one constructed for him.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think
wrongly is better than not to think at all.- Hypatia.
Though little is known about her life, Hypatia has served as an emblem of female advancement in the sciences.
A central character in Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is a woman philosopher
clearly modeled on(though not identical with) Hypatia.
He was a fanatical Christian, and became hostile to Orestes, the
Roman prefect of Egypt, a former student and a friend of Hypatia.
John, who lived several hundred years after the events he describes, writes bitterly of Hypatia, claiming that"she beguiled many people through(her) Satanic wiles".
In his 1852 Hypatie and 1857 Hypathie et Cyrille,
French poet Charles Leconte de Lisle portrayed Hypatia as the epitome of"vulnerable truth and beauty".
Of the many accounts of Hypatia's death, the most complete is the one written
around 415 by Socrates Scholasticus and included in the Historia Ecclesiastica(Ecclesiastical History).
Diodata Saluzzo Roero's 1827 Ipazia ovvero delle Filosofie
suggested that Cyril had actually converted Hypatia to Christianity, and that she had been killed by a"treacherous" priest.
Bishop John of Nikiu, who lived several hundred years after the events he describes, writes bitterly of Hypatia, claiming that"she beguiled many people through(her) Satanic wiles".
The last really good astronomer and
mathematician in Greek Alexandria was a woman, Hypatia, born in 370 AD the daughter of an astronomer and mathematician Theon,
who worked at the museum.
In 1843, German authors Soldan and
Heppe argued in their highly influential History of the Witchcraft Trials that Hypatia may have been,
in effect, the first famous"witch" punished under Christian authority(see witch-hunt).
Cameron, who analyzed Theon's titles for other books of Almagest and for other scholarly texts of late antiquity,
concludes that Hypatia corrected not her father's commentary but the text of Almagest itself.
The two other LNG fueled vessels, Hypatia de Alejandría,
and Marie Curie(each 800 passengers, 150 cars and 2,100 lane meters for cargo) are also being readied for early and mid-2019 deliveries from the Italian yard.
And in those days there appeared in Alexandria a female philosopher,
a pagan named Hypatia, and she was devoted at all times to magic,
astrolabes and instruments of music, and she beguiled many people through Satanic wiles.