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Hypatia

Born

Alexandria, Egypt

Genre

Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Plato; Aristotle; Theon Alexandricus

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Hypatia (ca. CE 350–370–March 415) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher in Roman Egypt who was the first historically noted woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy. As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical enquiry and strongly encouraged law in place of nature.

According to the only contemporary source -- Socrates Scholasticus's Historia Ecclesiastica (or "Ecclesiastical History"), which was written shortly after Hypatia's death in AD 415 -- H ...more

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	Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1 by Niccolò Machiavelli, Ninian Hill Thomson (Translator), Dave Gillespie (Narrator) 4.08 avg rating — 10,089 ratings — published 1517 — 412 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles (Introduction), Rebecca Gibel (Narrator), Theodosia (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 5,188 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Hannah Jewell, Rachael Beresford (Narrator), Hatshepsut (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 2,810 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oracle of New Delphi #1: Book One by Hypatia, Sapphire Stevens (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oracle of New Delphi #2: Book Two by Hypatia, Sapphire Stevens (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fistful of Dragons by Hypatia, Sapphire Stevens (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady Lies Sleeping by Hypatia, Sapphire Stevens (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy and Language 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”
― Hypathia of Alexandria

tags: belief, fables, fantasies, fight, indoctrination, intangible, miracles, misdirection, myths, refutation, superstitions, teaching, truth

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“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
― Hypatia

tags: hell

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“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”
― Hypatia of Alexandria

tags: dogma, dogmatic-religion

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