The 10th-century Chronicle of John of Nikiu presents a hostile account of this person's life, compared to the more balanced account in the contemporary Ecclasiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus.
One surviving letter written to this thinker from a former student requests the delivery of a hydroscope for measuring the density of fluids, as well as an astrolabe. The 10th-century Chronicle of John of Nikiu presents a hostile account of this person's life, compared to the more balanced account in the contemporary Ecclasiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. This scholar revised Theon's Commentary on the Almagest and commented on works by Diophantus and Apollonius. Bishop Synezius of Ptolemais had a lively correspondence with this person, and the local governor Orestes' execution of the radical monks Ammonius and Hierax caused this person to became the crux of a controversy instigated by St. Cyril. One story asserts that this person died by being scraped to death with roofing tiles. One likely-spurious episode about this person's life recounts her presenting a male admirer with her menstrual cloth to curb his romanticism. For 10 points, name this Alexandrian philosopher and mathematician who was lynched by a Christian mob in 413 AD.
One surviving letter written to this thinker from a former student requests the delivery of a hydroscope for measuring the density of fluids, as well as an astrolabe.
{Hypatia }of Alexandria