Hypatia

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Scientists are not sure when Hypatia was born. Nobody really knows about her, the reason for this is that when she died ,which is another story we will get to later on, her books where burned in Alexandria which is the school that she taught for. But one thing we do know is that she lived in Egypt. She had many offers for marriage but she had said no to all of the offers. She had decided to put all of her time in to teaching and learning.

There is no record of her mother so she was raised by her father, Theon. Theon was a mathematician, a philosopher, a noted astronomer, and an astrologer. He was looking to make the perfect human so he chose his daughter. He taught her everything he new and then some. She had such a powerful mind that she wrote books, and invented the plane astrolea, the graduated brass hydrometer, and droslope. It is not completely proven that she has invented all of this, but people have had many fights about it.

There are many stories about how she died one is that she was dragged by a mob into the streets and skinned her alive with oyster shells. Another story is that Cyril dragged her from her chariot into a church tore off her clothes and flayed her skin from her bones with abalone shells. her remains were burned and Cyril was made a saint.



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