{"id":4182,"date":"2010-06-04T01:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2010-06-04T01:40:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:40:20","slug":"re-agora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/re-agora\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Agora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then you could read about Hypatia on pages 44-45 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quantity-Real-Imaginary-History-Algebra\/dp\/0452288533\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1275615160&amp;sr=1-1\">my history of algebra<\/a>. You could also cast an eye on Charles William Mitchell&#8217;s melodramatic (and to my eye, sexually ambiguous) painting of the lady&#8217;s last moments, in the photo well at the middle of the book.<\/p>\n<p>One of my pitches has been that <em>Unknown Quantity<\/em> is the only algebra book to include a picture of a naked woman.\u00a0 Though again, it&#8217;s not totally clear to me that Mitchell had a woman in mind&#8230;\u00a0 Funny people, the Victorians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Charles Kingsley&#8217;s novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Reviews\/Considerations\/kingsley.html#hypatia\">Hypatia<\/a><\/em> was, by the way, a great favorite of Queen Victoria&#8217;s, and still reads well today. It was the inspiration for Mitchell&#8217;s painting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then you could read about Hypatia on pages 44-45 of my history of algebra. You could also cast an eye on Charles William Mitchell&#8217;s melodramatic (and to my eye, sexually ambiguous) painting of the lady&#8217;s last moments, in the photo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/re-agora\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}