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Hypatia of Alexandria

by: DEAKIN, MICHAEL

Hypatia of Alexandria

by: DEAKIN, MICHAEL

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9781591025207
ISBN 10:
1591025206
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 05/01/2007
Publisher: Prometheus Books

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This is the first biography of Hypatia of Alexandria to integrate all aspects of her life emphasizing that, though she was a philosopher, she was first and foremost a mathematician and astronomer of great accomplishment.

Acknowledgments	p. 9
A Note on Spelling Conventions	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Historical Context	p. 19
The Intellectual Background	p. 25
The Religious Background
Christianity	p. 31
Neoplatonism	p. 35
The Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 39
The Sources	p. 43
The Details of Hypatia's Life	p. 49
Hypatia's Work, Attitudes, and Lifestyle	p. 57
Hypatia's Death	p. 67
Hypatia's Philosophy	p. 77
Hypatia's Mathematics
Background and Sources	p. 87
Book III of the Almagest	p. 91
Books IV-XIII of the Almagest	p. 93
Apollonius's Conics	p. 95
The Astronomical Canon	p. 96
The Arithmetic of Diophantus	p. 98
The Astrolabe	p. 102
The "Hydroscope"	p. 104
Other Work	p. 105
Evaluation	p. 107
Mathematical Details
Number Representation and Long Division	p. 115
Conic Sections	p. 118
Diophantine Analysis	p. 119
Stereographic Projection	p. 122
Pandrosion	p. 127
The Legend of Saint Catherine of Alexandria	p. 135
Translations of the Primary Sources
The Suda, Hesychius, and Damascius	p. 137
Socrates Scholaticus	p. 143
John of Nikiu	p. 148
Synesius of Cyrene	p. 150
Miscellaneous	p. 158
Notes	p. 161
Annotated Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 221
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Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

9781591025207

1591025206

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