Hypatia of Alexandria : Mathematician and Martyr (Hardcover)

from Paulagraph

This book is probably better than just OK, but that's my mood at the moment. It serves its stated purpose in that Deakin reviews & convincingly interprets here all that it is known, which is very little, about 4th and early 5th century Hypatia of Alexandra, who was, if not the first, perhaps the ...

from Devil_llama

Rather unsatisfying biography of Hypatia. The author uses all sorts of repetition and unnecessary verbiage to expand what amounts to only about 20 pages of material to a 114 page book. The rest of the book is just appendices and notes. In addition, the chapter discussing Hypatia's philosophy does...

from MarysGirl

In doing my original research, for my novel "Selene of Alexandria," I ran across Professor Deakin and his most useful website where he posted all the primary sources that mentioned Hypatia. Over the years, he spoke of her at conferences and wrote articles. Finally, in 2007 he published his book a...