@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ # [Hypatia, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. X, Great Teachers|http://poly.polyamory.org/~howard/Hypatia/Hubbard_1928.html] A reasonably well written if somewhat unreliable read.
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Hypatia has been discussed on multiple occasions on the [Church of Virus|ChurchOfVirus] BBS and list. See also [http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html] and [http://poly.polyamory.org/~howard/Hypatia/Hubbard_1928.html].
-A beautiful lady by all accounts, a philosopher, an engineer, an erudite and eloquent conversionalist
, an intellectual leader, and the first woman known to have made a significant contribution to mathematics. Murdered by the Christians in March 415 CE, just a few years after they had burnt down the Library of Alexandria. She taught Neoplatonics and came to represent Science and Mathematics - or as the Christians called it, "paganism," which was why they murdered her. Her death marked the marked the start of the diaspora of the scholars of Alexandria, the loss of much ancient knowledge and technology, and the beginning of the rule of Christianity, appropriately known as the "Dark Ages." Despite her writings having been destroyed, the memory of her has endured through the ages. A life so bright that not even the Dark Ages could supress her memory completely.
+A beautiful lady by all accounts, a philosopher, an engineer, an erudite and eloquent conversationalist
, an intellectual leader, and the first woman known to have made a significant contribution to mathematics. Murdered by the Christians in March 415 CE, just a few years after they had burnt down the Library of Alexandria. She taught Neoplatonics and came to represent Science and Mathematics - or as the Christians called it, "paganism," which was why they murdered her. Her death marked the marked the start of the diaspora of the scholars of Alexandria, the loss of much ancient knowledge and technology, and the beginning of the rule of Christianity, appropriately known as the "Dark Ages." Despite her writings having been destroyed, the memory of her has endured through the ages. A life so bright that not even the Dark Ages could supress her memory completely.
One relevant quote and a cross reference. The cross reference is the post "RE: virus: saints", Hermit, 2001-04-07. And the
Quote: "All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrong is better than not to think at all! Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying! Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for truth -- even more so, since a superstition is intangible you can't get at it, but truth is a point of view, and is so changeable!" Hypatia 370-415 C.E.
