hypatia

The site itself is nice too, particularly the embedded video of Hypatia is much better than a long description.

Interestingly, it shows that Hypatia of Alexandria contributed to the design of Synesius’ Astrolabe.

I hope we get to hear how Hypatia would change that document because personally, I would learn from that.

I've never met her in person, but Hypatia ripped apart a product that a company I worked for released.

If you want a precise date, I propose the date of murder of Hypatia in 415 AD.

Based on that experience, I will always argue that Hypatia is not only freakishly intelligent, but she manages to stay reasonable.

If you're actually interested in Hypatia you can read this series...

Had situations been reversed a decade ago, I would have been much more difficult for Hypatia to deal with than she was for me.

The Wikipedia version virtually doesn't mention the stoning of Hypatia or the burning of the library, except for a different smaller fire caused by a war during Julius Caesar.

> If you want a precise date, I propose the date of murder of Hypatia in 415 AD.

There are a few good examples of significant errors in the link I cited which I think are substantial - the portrayal of Hypatia is a big one.

This was a gradual process that took centuries, but two notable events in it are the clear-cutting of Plato's Academy by Sulla in 86 BCE (whose soldiers also killed Archimedes) and the lynching of Hypatia by Christians in 415 CE.

Hypatia’s father, Theon of Alexandria, had recently published “Euclid’s Elements of Geometry,” the most successful and influential geometry textbook of all time.

It is a work of my own devising, including all that she, my most reverend teacher [Hypatia], helped to contribute, and it was executed by the best hand to be found in our country in the art of the silversmiths” The letter also discusses how much geometry and astronomy had progressed since the time of Ptolemy.

The twitter thread does contain some actual criticisms: "it’s uselessly vague, blames the victims of abuse rather than the perpetrators, and lays out no actual process for violations"; "the 1st graf def sets up some apologist precedents" - but Hypatia is not the one making them.

In fact, in the final episode of the original Cosmos, “Who Speaks for Earth”, Carl Sagan says, “The last remains of the library were destroyed within a year of Hypatia’s death.” The problem with this is that the last remnant of the Library of Alexandria were almost certainly destroyed in 391, 24 years before Hypatia’s death, and most of the library was likely destroyed, by accident, centuries earlier.

I don't mean to insult, but I have nothing of substance...other than my respect for Hypatia.

Quote: Cosmos does not make Hypatia’s death so much a religious issue as an anti-intellectual on, but the truth is that it was actually a political one.

Historians despise the guy for all the stuff he made up about the library of Alexandria, Hypatia, Eratosthenes, etc...