HYPATIA OF

ALEXANDRIA
Isabela Restrepo G.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Hipatia (355-415), is a symbol of the end
of classical thinking in the face of the
advance of Christianity. Philosopher,
mathematician and astronomer, leader of
the Neoplatonic School of Alexandria.
Hypatia is the first female mathematician
we have knowledge of. She was lynched by
a fanatical mob at a time of Theodosian
Catholicism: dragged around the city,
stripped naked, and beaten to death with
tiles.
 Defend your right to think, because
even thinking wrong is better than
not thinking."
ALWAYS REMEMBER

Hypatia of Alexandria
 She had a brilliant mind and she was able
to solve all kinds of mathematical problems
HYPATIA FACTS: with great ease

She was passionate about music. She

designed her own instruments and wrote
her own melodies..

She is known as "the legendary free thinker

in the face of bigotry."

She was not interested in any kind of loving

relationship, her mission in life was to
devote herself fully to wisdom.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF She wrote books on geometry,

HYPATIA:
algebra and astronomy.

She improved the design of early

astrolabes.

She mapped the celestial bodies,

made a planisphere.

She showed interest in

mechanics.
 “All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and

OTHER must never be accepted by self-respecting

persons as final.”
QUOTES:
"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."
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
TIME!
Don`t forget thinking!