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Hypatia constructed astrolabes and hydrometers, but did not invent either of these, which were both in use long before she was born. She was tolerant toward Christians and taught many Christian students, including Synesius, the future bishop of Ptolemais. Ancient sources record that Hypatia was widely beloved by pagans and Christians alike and ...
[11] [12] [13] The misattribution comes from a misinterpretation of a statement in a letter written by Hypatia's pupil Synesius (c. 373–414), [11] [12] [13] which mentions that Hypatia had taught him how to construct a plane astrolabe, but does not say that she invented it.
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia , and tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria , where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day.
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.
Theon was the father of the mathematician Hypatia, who succeeded him as head of his school [5] Theon dedicated his commentary on the Almagest to a boy named Epiphanius, who may have been his son. [6] Also, in his commentary on the Almagest he states that his daughter Hypatia contributed to Book III of the Almagest stating "the edition having ...
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Hypatia (c. 370–415), was a Greek scholar and philosopher who was considered the first notable woman in mathematics. Hypatia (or Hipatia) may also refer to:
Fox was already a movie star by the time Family Ties ended, but he soon followed the show with Back to the Future II and III, cementing his status as a Hollywood fixture.In the 1990s, he starred ...