Hypatia

> //Hypatia// >
 * HYPATIA **  **BenL802 **
 * Quotes **
 * "In the starry expanse that has no dwellings: forces of the universe, interior virtues, harmonious union of earth and heaven that delights the mind and the ear and the eye, that offers an attainable ideal to all wise men and a visible splendor to the beauty of the soul."
 * Early Life **[[image:researchthetopic/hypatia.jpg width="238" height="349" align="right"]]
 * Hypatia was born in 370 A.D (There is some disagreement about whether she was born in 355 A.D. or 370 A.D. but the majority of people say it was in 370 A.D.) and died in 415 A.D.
 * She was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
 * Her father, Theon of Alexandria, vowed to raise her to be a perfect human which was strange because women were not as respected as men were at the time.
 * Theon was an important teacher at the Alexandrian Museum.
 * Theon taught Hypatia all of his knowledge at a very early age and had a vigorous exercise routine with her because he believed that you had to be strong mentally and physically.
 *  Hypatia was sent off toAthens, Greece, where she studied math under Plutarch the Younger.
 * It was in Greece that Hypatia became a famous mathematician.


 * Career **
 *  Hypatia wrote many commentaries on books such as Ptolemy’s //Almagest.//
 * In 400 A.D, Hypatia was reported head of the Neoplatonic School in Alexandria.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the school she taught geometry, philosophy and astronomy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She was known as ‘the philosopher’.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She was a philosopher of Plato and Aristotle as well as Diophantus.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She based her teachings on Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism and Iamblichus.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia was recognized for commentaries on <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Apollonius of Perga] ’s //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conics //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Diophantus of Alexandria] ’s //<span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arithmetic. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia had very popular public lectures.


 * <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Synesius **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Synesius was born in 373 A.D and died in 414 A.D.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was a descendant of the Spartans.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Synesius of Cyrene was Hypatia’s pupil.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Little of Hypatia’s work survived but they have an idea of who she was from her pupil, Synesius of Cyrene’s, letters who later became bishop of Ptolemy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Hypatia grew older, Synesius’ letters to his beloved teacher became regularly unanswered.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One letter to Synesius from Hypatia included directions for how to design an Astrolabe, even though there is little chance that Hypatia actually invented it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">An Astrolabe is a device that allows users to see the position of the stars and the sun in the sky.[[image:Bl drawing of Hypatia.jpg width="293" height="420"]]


 * <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Death **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia was murdered on a March night in 415 A.D at around age 45.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Her friend was Orestes, the prefect of Egypt. Cyril, the patriarch of Egypt didn’t like Hypatia influencing Orestes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia was a strong political figure and was very popular with the people of Alexandria so it was hard to make Hypatia stop.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because of this challenge, Cyril tried a new tactic and accused Hypatia of witchcraft.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This tactic worked a little better but it still didn’t make a big change.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">J //<span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ohn of Nikui said, "She beguiled many people through satanic wiles."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cyril decided to ambush her and hire a militia force called the //<span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parabolani. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They took her out of her carriage and killed her and then burned her on the steps of a church called The Caesarium.


 * <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fun Facts **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia may have had a brother//,// <span style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Epiphanius.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia is regarded as the only female scientist in the ancient world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alexandria, Egypt, is the second largest city in Egypt.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Library of Alexandria was the largest library in the ancient world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alexandria is known as The Pearl of the Mediterranean.




 * <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Citations **


 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">02-Eratosthenes, Map of Egypt //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. N.d. Photograph. TerraMetrics, n.p.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dixon, Don. "Who Was Hypatia of Alexandria?" //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Who Was Hypatia of Alexandria? //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cosmographica, 2013. Web. 17 Sept. 2013
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia-02 //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. N.d. Photograph. N.p.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"**Hypatia.**" //Britannica School.// Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 9 Sep. 2013. < <span style="color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">>.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"**Hypatia.**" //Britannica School.// Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 9 Sep. 2013. < <span style="color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[]
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. N.d. Photograph. N.p
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lendering, Jona. "Synesius of Cyrene." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Synesius of Cyrene //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Livius, 25 Feb. 2011. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor, J J, and E F Robertson. "Hypatia of Alexandria." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hypatia Biography //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland, Apr. 1999. Web. 10 Sept. 2013.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Staeger, Rob. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ancient Mathematicians //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2009. Print.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Synesius." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wikipedia //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Nov. 2013. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Grolier Library of Science Biographies. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Vol. 5. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 1997. Print.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Van Londen, Pam. "Did Hypatia Invent the Astrolabe?" WS 320 Gender Technology. WS 320 Gender & Technology, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2013.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zielinsk, Sarah I. "Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Scholar." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smithsonian Magazine //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Smithsonian.com, 15 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Sept. 2013.