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Hypatia is a feminine given name of Ancient Greek origin derived from the word hypatos (): (ὕπατος), meaning highest, supreme. It is often given in reference to Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350 to 370-415), the Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
Hypatia was honored as an astronomer when 238 Hypatia, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1884, was named for her. The lunar crater Hypatia was also named for her, in addition to craters named for her father Theon. The 180 km Rimae Hypatia are located north of the crater, one degree south of the equator, along the Mare Tranquillitatis. [226]
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.
A visually unremarkable star of apparent magnitude 3.3, [2] in 2002 it was discovered to have a planet orbiting it [13] (designated Iota Draconis b, later named Hypatia). From parallax measurements, this star is located at a distance of about 101.2 light-years (31.0 parsecs ) from the Sun .
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.
Hypatia (c. 370–415), was a Greek scholar and philosopher who was considered the first notable woman in mathematics. ... Hyapatia Lee, actress; Hypatia (given name)
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.
In 2007, he published the book Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr (Prometheus Books). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Aimed at a popular audience, the book is "at least in part, a response to Maria Dzielska 's Hypatia of Alexandria ", which had focused on the historical and literary legacy of Hypatia at the expense of her mathematics, and ...