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Though Hubbard's fictional biography may have been intended for children, [229] Lynn M. Osen relied on it as her main source in her influential 1974 article on Hypatia in her 1974 book Women in Mathematics. [231] Fordham University used Hubbard's biography as the main source of information about Hypatia in a medieval history course.
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley.It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, and tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria, where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day.
Her book Hypatia of Alexandria, published in the USA in 1995 by the University of Harvard, was translated into 8 languages and named the best academic book of the year in the category 'Philosophy' by Choice Magazine as well as, the best history book of 1995 by American History Book Club.
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.
Alexandria author M.E. Nevill wrote a fictional book about her uncle Leo Ortego who invented the helicopter.
The librarianship of Aristophanes of Byzantium is widely considered to have opened a more mature phase of the Library of Alexandria's history. [46] [68] [61] During this phase of the Library's history, literary criticism reached its peak [46] [68] and came to dominate the Library's scholarly output. [69]
Anna Brownell Jameson was the first to argue that the life of Catherine was confused with that of the slightly later neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. [27] Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was murdered by the Parabalani after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures ...
[43] Scholasticus, alleges that Hypatia fell "victim to the political jealousy which at the time prevailed" and that news of Hypatia's murder, "brought no small disgrace", not only to Patriarch Cyril but to the whole Christian Church in Alexandria, "for murder and slaughter and all such things are altogether opposed to the Christian religion." [44]