A vida lendária da filósofa e astrônoma Hypatia de Alexandria (351 – 415 d.C.), figura encarnada no cinema com maestria por Rachel Weisz no filmaço “Ágora (Alexandria)” de Alejandro Amenábar, acaba de ganhar um novo estudo de fôlego com este livro de Edward Watts, lançado pela Oxford University Press em 2017. Acesse e baixe o ebook completo em PDF: http://bit.ly/2rdPVkB (224 pgs). Compartilhar no Facebook. #Ebooks#Filosofia#Ciência#Astronomia

“A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity’s best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of…