On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia, one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria. Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy One day on the ...
In A.D. 415 Christian fanatics attacked and murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, claiming she was a heretic using black magic. Here’s the truth. A detail from Raphael’s 1509-1511 masterpiece “School of ...
Back in the 6th century CE, it was believed that the intellect was the domain of men. At the time, all the greatest minds that the world knew of were men. But if we go back just a century or two ago, ...
- Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415) ...
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