Hypatia of Alexandria in Podcasts
personHypatia of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer from the 4th century, known for her contributions to science and philosophy.
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But Alexandria had actually for several hundred years been known as the riot city.
There's a Hypatia asteroid belt, there's a Hypatia butterfly, there's a Hypatia crater on the moon.
Hypatia's quite well-renowned, so much so that several things have been named after her.
We've previously done an episode in the previous series about the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
My name's Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster and today we are grabbing our maths textbooks and frolicking back to the 4th century to Egypt to learn all about mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria.
And today we are grabbing our maths textbooks and frolicking back to the fourth century to Egypt to learn all about mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria.
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