ientist, but that she was scientist too. She is the most written about woman in history. The result of Hypatias success didnt have an up side, but instead really had a down side. I say this because women became frightened to be creative and have a mans job. It would be 700 years before there would be another woman who dared to be a scientist. Hypatia was not only a mathematician, but a philosopher, geometer, and astronomer as well. She wrote one science and two math books. She also wrote many other papers on all of the above subjects. Unfortunately, they have all been lost. Hypatias father Theon wrote many papers and a few books as well, only they werent lost. It is believed that she wrote his book on Ptolemy, entitled Almagest. It is also said that she wrote Theons version of Euclids thirteen books on geometry, entitled The Elements. These two books, or 14 books, which ever way you want to look at it, are very important because they tell us basically all that was known about math and science back then. She was also an inventor. Hypatia came up with an instrument for distilling water. She also invented an instrument to measure the specific gravity of water. Hypatia also invented a planisphere, which measures the velocity of solid objects through uncontaminated liquids. ...
