Hypatia of Alexandria

by DEAKIN, MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9781591025207
• ISBN10: 1591025206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michael A. B. Deakin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Monash University in Victoria (Melbourne), Australia.

Table of Contents

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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