Catherine Macaulay spoke up for women. She condemned the treatment of women, advocating for women’s rights and…
I have good hope that there is something after death. This is a quote by Plato that I chose to use for the first chapter of my recently published book, Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life. This quote is so profound to me because her legacy continued to live on after Hypatia’s death. Some were negative, some were propaganda, and
Though she was Voltaire’s lover, she did not love him nearly as much as she loved …
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In ancient history, Rome had a few female contemporaries in science that forged a path for women in STEM!
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The story of her life is an intriguing one! She was a mathematician, an astronomer, a philosopher, and a political advisor, yet she was brutally murdered by church monks. For thousands of years, her death overshadowed her accomplishments. But, eventually, the truth of her life finally surfaced in the history books. Damascius wrote that Theon raised Hypatia with dikaeosyne (justice) and
So, I have a big announcement! It has been quite a while since I popped up on Math! Science! History!! Sooooo, what have I been up to? My book on Hypatia is done! It will be published at the end of June! In other news, in case you haven’t been following me on Instagram, here is the low-down: I put my
Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through stereographic projection …
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In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao determined the value of pi to 100 trillion digits! When Archimedes first determined this value, his was only three digits. His life…
If you could travel through time, where would you want to go?!
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When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?