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- 00:36, 9 March 2020 diff hist +1,130 Talk:Hypatia of Alexandria →3.1: adding reply current
- 20:15, 8 March 2020 diff hist +943 Talk:Hypatia of Alexandria comment on Hypatia's beauty
- 20:08, 8 March 2020 diff hist -10 Hypatia of Alexandria →Biography: The Serapeum did at one point house a portion of the Library of Alexandria's collection, but Ammianus Marcellinus, writing shortly before its destruction, speaks of its library in the past tense. None of the accounts of its destruction men
- 19:46, 8 March 2020 diff hist -73 Hypatia of Alexandria The story about Theon's alleged excercise program for Hypatia comes from Elbert Hubbard's fictional biography of her written for children. Somehow this obviously fictional work came to be cited by scholars.
- 19:43, 8 March 2020 diff hist -127 Hypatia of Alexandria Thales's life isn't well recorded, so we don't know if he was actually a mathematician. Furthermore, there were certainly people who studied mathematics in the ancient Near East long before Thales.
- 19:37, 8 March 2020 diff hist +273 Hypatia of Alexandria →Academic work: Contrary to popular belief, Hypatia did not, in fact, invent either the plane astrolabe or the hydrometer. The idea that she invented these things comes from a flagrant misreading of Synesios's letters.
- 19:28, 8 March 2020 diff hist +29 Hypatia of Alexandria →Historical distortions: adding citation
- 19:25, 8 March 2020 diff hist +965 Hypatia of Alexandria →Christian distortions: There is universal consensus among the earliest Christian sources that Hypatia was a brilliant scholar and that her murder was an atrocity; it is only in much later sources that people start trying to justify it.
- 19:07, 8 March 2020 diff hist -105 Hypatia of Alexandria As I noted in my previous edit summary, her death didn't really mark the end of much of anything. Greek philosophy largely continued to flourish in the eastern Roman Empire until Justinian I shut down the Neoplatonic Akademia in Athens in 529 CE.
- 19:04, 8 March 2020 diff hist +22 Hypatia of Alexandria There are others known to have lived before her. The difference with Hypatia is that her life is relatively well-recorded.
- 19:02, 8 March 2020 diff hist -37 Hypatia of Alexandria The alleged connection between Hypatia's murder and the so-called "Dark Ages" is at best overblown. There were more Neoplatonic philosophers after her, such as Isidoros of Alexandria, Aidesia of Alexandria, Damaskios of Syria, and Simplikios of Kilikia.
- 18:58, 8 March 2020 diff hist -135 Hypatia of Alexandria making some minor corrections
- 18:54, 8 March 2020 diff hist +332 Talk:Out-of-place artifact →Antikythera mechanism not a real "out-of-place artifact": adding reply
- 17:41, 8 March 2020 diff hist +554 Out-of-place artifact →The Antikythera gambit: adding mention of the fact that devices similar to the Antikythera mechanism are referenced in multiple ancient Greek and Roman sources
- 17:28, 8 March 2020 diff hist +13 m Talk:Out-of-place artifact →Antikythera mechanism not a real "out-of-place artifact": adding quotation marks around "out-of-place artifact"
- 17:27, 8 March 2020 diff hist +860 Talk:Out-of-place artifact The Antikythera mechanism is objectively not an "out-of-place artifact" in any way; artifacts like it are mentioned in multiple ancient historical sources and Cicero even gives a detailed description of one such device in his *De Re Publica*.