{"id":402,"date":"2023-09-17T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:06:52","slug":"sources-hypatia-of-alexandria-was-a-mystic-not-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/sources-hypatia-of-alexandria-was-a-mystic-not-a-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypatia of Alexandria was a mystic not a scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShugqfNA2FQ\" title=\"\">This video<\/a> explains that Hypatia of Alexandria was a mystic, not a scientist. She was a lot more like Gwyneth Paltrow than she was like Isaac Newton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Hypatia of Alexandria myth\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShugqfNA2FQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Acerbi, Fabio. \u201cHypatia.\u201d <em>New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 3, Vol. 3,<\/em>. Edited by Noretta Koertge. Detroit [etc.]: Scribner, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alic, Margaret. <em>Hypatia\u2019s Heritage: A History of Women Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century<\/em>. London: The Women\u2019s Press Ltd, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booth, Charlotte. <em>Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth<\/em>. Fonthill Media, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campion, Nicholas. \u201cAstrology in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture.\u201d <em>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science<\/em>, 23 May 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190647926.013.46\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190647926.013.46<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/planetaryscience\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190647926.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190647926-e-46\">https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/planetaryscience\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190647926.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190647926-e-46<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemla, Karine, and Glenn W. Most, eds. <em>Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World: A Global Perspective<\/em>. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108884488\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108884488<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/9781108884488\/type\/book\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/9781108884488\/type\/book<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cohen, Martin, and Ra\u00fal Gonz\u00e1les. <em>Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes That Make up the True Story of Philosophy<\/em>. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deakin, Michael A. B. <em>Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr<\/em>. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devreese, Jozef T, Guido Vanden Berghe, and Simon Stevin. <em>\u201cMagic Is No Magic\u201d: The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin<\/em>. Southampton: WIT Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickey, Eleanor. <em>Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period<\/em>. American Philological Association Classical Resources Series no. 7. New York\u202f; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donovan, Sandra. <em>Hypatia: Mathematician, Inventor, and Philosopher<\/em>. Signature Lives. Minneapolis, Minn: Compass Point Books, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dzielska, Maria. <em>Hypatia of Alexandria<\/em>. Harvard University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gagarin, Michael. <em>The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giberson, Karl, and Mariano Artigas. <em>Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grattan-Guiness, Ivor, ed. \u201cLater Greek and Byzantime Mathematics.\u201d <em>Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences: Volume One.<\/em> By Alexander Jones. Florence: Routledge, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/public.eblib.com\/choice\/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5327368\">http:\/\/public.eblib.com\/choice\/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5327368<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herrmann, Dietmar. <em>Ancient Mathematics: History of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and Hellenism<\/em>. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-662-66494-0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-662-66494-0<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/978-3-662-66494-0\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/978-3-662-66494-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodgkin, Luke Howard. <em>A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hubbard, Elbert. <em>Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great.<\/em> Cleveland, O.: World Pub. Co., 1928.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kasak, Enn. \u201cAncient Astrology as a Common Root for Science and Pseudo-Science.\u201d <em>FEJF<\/em> 15 (2000): 84\u2013103. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7592\/FEJF2000.15.ancient\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7592\/FEJF2000.15.ancient<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Klein, Jacob. \u201cGreek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra\u201d (n.d.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krebs, Robert E. <em>Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance<\/em>. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries Through the Ages. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lindberg, David C. \u201cMyth 1: That the Rise of Christianity Was Responsible For the Demise of Ancient Science.\u201d <em>Galileo Goes to Jail: And Other Myths about Science and Religion<\/em>. Edited by Ronald L Numbers. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lumpkin, Beatrice. \u201cHypatia and Women\u2019s Rights in Ancient Egypt.\u201d <em>Black Women in Antiquity<\/em>. Edited by Ivan Van Sertima. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Books, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magazine, Smithsonian, and Sarah Zielinski. \u201cHypatia, Ancient Alexandria\u2019s Great Female Scholar.\u201d <em>Smithsonian Magazine<\/em>, 14 March 2010. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/hypatia-ancient-alexandrias-great-female-scholar-10942888\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/hypatia-ancient-alexandrias-great-female-scholar-10942888\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McAlister, Linda L. <em>Hypatia\u2019s Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers<\/em>. A Hypatia Book. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montanari, Franco, ed. <em>History of Ancient Greek Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age<\/em>. Leiden\u202f; Boston: Brill, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montanari, Franco, Stefanos Matthaios, and Antonios Rengakos. <em>Brill\u2019s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 Vols.)<\/em>. Vol. 1\u20132. Leiden\u202f; Boston: BRILL, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moore, Brooke Noel, and Kenneth Bruder. <em>Philosophy: The Power of Ideas<\/em>. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netz, Reviel. <em>A New History of Greek Mathematics<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osen, Lynn M. <em>Women in Mathematics<\/em>. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pirtea, Adrian C. \u201cAstral Ensoulment and Astral Signifiers in Sixth-Century Readings of Origen and Evagrius: Justinian\u2019s Anathemas, Sergius of Re\u0161\u02bfayn\u0101, John Philoponus.\u201d <em>Vigiliae Christianae<\/em> 1.aop (2021): 1\u201341. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/15700720-12341477\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/15700720-12341477<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajeswara Sarma, Sreeramula. <em>The Archaic and the Exotic Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments<\/em>. New Delhi: Manohar, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rana, Lalita. <em>Geographical Thought: A Systematic Record of Evolution<\/em>. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Synesius, and Augustine Fitzgerald. <em>The Letters of Synesius of Cyrene<\/em>. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Sertima, Ivan. \u201cBlack Women in Antiquity.\u201d <em>Journal of African Civilizations.<\/em> 6 (1983): 1\u2013159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watts, Edward Jay. <em>Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher<\/em>. Women In Antiquity. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/public.ebookcentral.proquest.com\/choice\/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4789594\">http:\/\/public.ebookcentral.proquest.com\/choice\/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4789594<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wessel, Susan. <em>Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic<\/em>. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGroundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Book, 2004) [WorldCat.Org],\u201d n.d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/groundbreaking-scientific-experiments-inventions-and-discoveries-of-the-middle-ages-and-the-renaissance\/oclc\/727880385&amp;referer=brief_results\">http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/groundbreaking-scientific-experiments-inventions-and-discoveries-of-the-middle-ages-and-the-renaissance\/oclc\/727880385&amp;referer=brief_results<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstructions to Authors | International Journal of Current Research,\u201d n.d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalcra.com\/instructions-authors\">http:\/\/www.journalcra.com\/instructions-authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Rise and Fall of Astrology.\u201d <em>The Renaissance Mathematicus<\/em>, 15 February 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/thonyc.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/15\/the-rise-and-fall-of-astrology\/\">https:\/\/thonyc.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/15\/the-rise-and-fall-of-astrology\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video explains that Hypatia of Alexandria was a mystic, not a scientist. 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