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Hypatia (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's biography of Hypatia, covering her scholarship, her death, and the scholarly debate over her birth year.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts and to describe the birth year debate among historians, not to settle it.
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Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Scientists, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

8

Scientists

Scholarly debate

1

Scientists

General References

1

Scientists

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