1. Hypatia - Noun
2. Hypatia - Proper noun
Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)
Source: WordNetIn 1867, the early photographer Julia Margaret Cameron created a portrait of the scholar as a young woman. citation On 2 January 1893, a stage play, Hypatia, written by G. Stuart Ogilvie, opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Source: Internet
Cameron, who analyzed Theon's titles for other books of Almagest and for other scholarly texts of late antiquity, concludes that Hypatia corrected not her father's commentary but the text of Almagest itself. Source: Internet
Rinne Groff 's 2000 play The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem features a character named Hypatia who lives silently, in fear that she will suffer the fate of her namesake. Source: Internet
Scholasticus then introduces Hypatia, the female philosopher of Alexandria and the woman who became a target of the Christian anger that was inflamed during the feud. Source: Internet
Scholasticus writes that Hypatia ultimately fell "victim to the political jealousy which at the time prevailed". Source: Internet
The Martyrdom of Hypatia, 1915 and Stephen Greenblatt observes that her murder "effectively marked the downfall of Alexandrian intellectual life". Source: Internet