Books on Hypatia of Alexandria

a bibliography by
Howard A. Landman

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A library card catalog shows you which books a particular library has. This page is the opposite: an inverted card catalog that shows you which libraries have certain books! In this case, I've collected all the books and magazine articles which appeared in my searches of the world's libraries for information about Hypatia of Alexandria, the great mathematician, scientist, and teacher of antiquity. Also included are a number of items identified by Dr. M.A.B. Deakin.

My longer-term goal is to put all of the older material (whose copyright has expired or never existed) on the net in machine-readable form. If you want to help, and have access to any of the items listed below, ESPECIALLY the very rare ones, please let me know by email. My address is at the bottom of this form. The entry process has begun; so far only a few items have been entered, but it's a start.

Most of the library references below were obtained through the net, using the University of Kansas' CWIS database, which pointed to almost every known electronic library card catalog in the world. The United States "Other Libraries" list alone was staggering enough! Unfortunately, this resource moved or disappeared, so I have had to remove my (broken) links to it. If you know where this is now, please let me know!

If you're broadly interested in Women And Science, click here for a more general bibliography.

A few of these books are still available. For those, I give a link into amazon.com. If you are buying more than one such book, please follow one link, add the book to your shopping cart, and then come back here to follow the next link. Amazon.com pays a small commission on each book sold this way. This costs you nothing extra, but provides the only financial support this website gets.


Hypatia herself


Magazine articles dealing with Hypatia

Thanks to the CARL system for help finding these. To use CARL's UnCover periodical database, first telnet pac.carl.org, choose PAC, select 5 for vt100 support, choose 1 (UnCover). [Interface may change. This worked as of April 6 1998.]

This wonderful service not only allows searching for magazine articles by subject or title etc., but also will deliver the article to you for a fee. For example, each of the articles below would cost around $10. If your time is valuable, this is cheaper than searching through library stacks yourself. And browsing is free. Minor irritation: if you're idle for a few minutes, they give you only 30 seconds warning before disconnecting you.

Another good index is ERIC. I got into it via U. Buffalo. Newspaper indices have been useless so far.


Alexandria and the Great Library


Other items of possible interest

Many of these items will come up if you do searches for Hypatia at various libraries, but most are probably unrelated to her.
©1997-2004 Howard A. Landman / howard@polyamory.org
Last updated 2004 April 3