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Francisco 2022-11-06 02:24:03
Where are you going? ——Aftermath of the movie "Agora"
Hypatia (Between 350 and 370-415 AD), a famous female philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer in the ancient West, was active in Alexandria, the cultural center of the late Roman Empire. It is said that the woman in white in Raphael's famous painting "Athens Academy" is her. Hypatia's father and... -
Tyreek 2022-11-10 20:32:15
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#on a book
In later centuries the likes of Socrates and Plato would continue to invite women into their schools, but it was not until the fourth century AD that a woman mathematician founded her own influential school. Hypatia, the daughter of a mathematics teacher at the University of Alexandria ,...
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Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.
Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?
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Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.
Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?
Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.
