Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...snatched her from her carriage, tore off her clothes, killed her with tiles, and burned her mangled limbs. What is there more exciting and tragical than this in the celebrated fate of the queen of Egypt, dying by the asp; the queen of Scotland, on the scaffold; the queen of Palmyra, at the chariot-wheels of Aurelian; or the queen of France, in the terrible days of Paris? They were queens, and have had their poets. Hypatia deserved one none the less; but, being a mathematician and a philosopher, her beauty and her fate have been committed to a corner of a scientific dictionary, and a brief paragraph of ecclesiastical history. But Hypatia is not alone in the history of her sex. We may call to mind Maria Agnesi, the gifted daughter of Italy, who spoke Latin at the age of nine, and Greek at eleven, as if her mother tongue, and whose vast acquisitions, as a linguist, procured for her the name of the Living Polyglot--who afterwards devoted herself to philosophy, and, before she was twenty, became a centre of attraction to the learned " She excelled all the philosophers of her time." " All men did her reverence, and had her in admiration, for the singular modesty of her mind."--Socrates, Scholast. vii. 15. by her fascinating power of conversation on profound subjects; and who, subsequently, accomplished herself in mathematics to such a degree, that, in her thirty-second year, she was appointed professor in the university at Bologna. She published a treatise on Analysis, of which there is an English translation, which has been considered the best introduction to Euler's Works. And at last, from this exalted station of public renown, she retired, like Pascal, surrendering all, through a religious impulse, and closed her life in a nunnery. France...
