Hypatia The Sum of Her Life is now on sale!

The sto­ry of her life is an intrigu­ing one! She was a math­e­mati­cian, an astronomer, a philoso­pher, and a polit­i­cal advi­sor, yet she was bru­tal­ly mur­dered by church monks. For thou­sands of years, her death over­shad­owed her accom­plish­ments. But, even­tu­al­ly, the truth of her life final­ly sur­faced in the his­to­ry books.  Dam­as­cius wrote that Theon raised Hypa­tia with dikaeosyne (jus­tice) and

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Pappus and Pandrosion:  the curmudgeon and the professor

Pappus and Pandrosion: the curmudgeon and the professor

There is a paper on Acad­e­mia that I post­ed years ago, proud­ly claim­ing that Hypa­tia was the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. It’s hum­bling what years of research will teach you. It so turns out that Hypa­tia was NOT the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. Oth­er women taught math­e­mat­ics long before Hypa­tia, includ­ing the math­e­mati­cian Pan­dro­sion. She was one of the first

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REPOSTING: The Story of Adolphe Rome from 300 B.C. to 2018 A.D.

REPOSTING: The Story of Adolphe Rome from 300 B.C. to 2018 A.D.

DECEMBER 2016 — AROUND THE WORLD  Humans per­sis­tent­ly live in an age where the preser­va­tion of knowl­edge is essen­tial. When Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion began its tran­si­tion into our gov­ern­ment, time was unfor­giv­ing­ly lim­it­ed; archivists, sci­en­tists, and data base experts around the world hur­ried­ly com­piled and har­bored endan­gered envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion records. Data res­cue events were coor­di­nat­ed in the Unit­ed King­dom, Greece, Ger­many, Japan,

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