These women have changed the world with science...Too bad a man was given all the credit...

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35. We have NO idea what Hypatia did beside so work on the stars and Philosophy

We have two reports on her (one written almost 200 years after her death) and some reports that may be hers but NOTHING as to the sun being the center of the Solar System. Thus we have no idea what she actually did, beside TEACH astronomy and Mathematics, and the speculation can be outrageous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

No written work, widely recognized by scholars as Hypatia's own, has survived to the present time. Many of the works commonly attributed to her are believed to have been collaborative works with her father, Theon Alexandricus, this kind of authorial uncertainty being typical for female philosophers in Antiquity.
A partial list of Hypatia's works as mentioned by other antique and medieval authors or as posited by modern authors:
A commentary on the 13-volume Arithmetica by Diophantus.
A commentary on the Conics of Apollonius. Edited the existing version of Ptolemy's Almagest.
Edited her father's commentary on Euclid's Elements
She wrote a text "The Astronomical Canon".(Either a new edition of Ptolemy's Handy Tables or commentary on the aforementioned Almagest.)
Her contributions to science are reputed to include the charting of celestial bodies and the invention of the hydrometer, used to determine the relative density (or specific gravity) of liquids. However, the hydrometer was invented before Hypatia, and already known in her time.
Her student Synesius, bishop of Cyrene, wrote a letter describing his construction of an astrolabe. Earlier astrolabes predate that of Synesius by at least a century, and Hypatia's father had gained fame for his treatise on the subject. However, Synesius claimed that his was an improved model. Synesius also sent Hypatia a letter describing a hydrometer, and requesting her to have one constructed for him.

Notice NOTHING about the sun being the center of the Solar System. This story seems to a 20th century invention just to show how evil the Christian mob that killed her was. The contemporary account clearly indicate she was caught up in a Political struggle between the Perfect, Roman Governor, of Alexandria and the Bishop of Alexandria. Both the Governor and the Bishop seems to have been shock by her death for they did not think the dispute between their supporters had reached that point. On the other hand such riots had been known in Alexandria for at least 600 years for various reasons many long forgotten. Such riots appears to have been a characteristic of that city and that time period, a characteristic Alexandria shared with Rome at that time period and Constantinople after it replaced Rome as the largest city in the world after about 400 AD.