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Her right hand is holding a quill and a scroll. Her right arm is resting on a philosopher's bust. Seven other scrolls are on a table. Greek-style artwork is painted on the wall below the window. The view from the window, presumably intended to show Alexandria, also reveals a church procession, with a cross being wielded.
Hypatia's father Theon of Alexandria is best known for having edited the existing text of Euclid's Elements, [11] [12] [13] shown here in a ninth-century manuscript. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 – c. 405 AD).
Hypatia is a lunar impact crater along the northwest edge of Sinus Asperitatis, a bay on the southwest edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was named after Egyptian mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria. [1] The nearest crater with an eponym is Alfraganus to the west-southwest.
Iota Draconis b, formally named Hypatia (pronounced / h aɪ ˈ p eɪ ʃ i ə / or / h ɪ ˈ p eɪ ʃ ə /), is an exoplanet orbiting the K-type giant star Iota Draconis about 101.2 light-years (31 parsecs, or nearly 2.932 × 10 14 km) from Earth in the constellation Draco.
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Hypatia by Charles William Mitchell (1885) Charles William Mitchell (1854–1903) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter from Newcastle.A contemporary of John William Waterhouse, his work is similar in many ways.
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Theon of Alexandria (/ ˌ θ iː ə n,-ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. AD 335 – c. 405) was a Greek [1] scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote commentaries on works by Euclid and Ptolemy. His daughter Hypatia also won fame as a mathematician.