Consilience is an online journal (edited by Sam Illingworth) that explores "the spaces where the sciences and the arts meet" -- and in the recent Issue 12 I have found a very special poem by British science writer Isabel Thomas that celebrates the pioneering math-woman, Hypatia of Alexandria (died 415 AD), one of the first women whose study and teaching of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy has been documented. I offer several stanzas of "Rimae Hypatia" -- followed by a link to the complete poem.
Rimae Hypatia by Isabel Thomas
The Rimae Hypatia is a lunar fissure named for Hypatia.
In the greatest library of the ancient world
Hypatia
turned her mind to
algebra, astronomy, geometry,
examining the world from different angles.
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