Remember Hypatia.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. I would have been one of those who did not raise my hand

when asked if I had ever heard of her. More's the pity. Thanks for posting this, I am fascinated by her.

This really caught me off guard (and I should know better):

A millennia after her death, the Renaissance artist Raphael was putting the finishing touches on his “School of Athens” masterpiece when a bishop came to see the painting.

“Who’s that woman?” the bishop asked. He needn’t have pointed. There’s only one woman of note in the painted crowd of male luminaries.

“Hypatia,” Raphael replied. “One of the greatest thinkers in history.”

“Paint her out,” the bishop responded. “Knowledge of her runs counter to the belief of the faithful. Otherwise the work is acceptable.”