Sixteen hundred years ago, Hypatia [
http://www.scottlan…] became one of the world's leading scholars in mathematics and astronomy. Hypatia [
http://www.polyamor…]'s legendary knowledge, modesty, and public speaking ability flourished during the era of the Great Library of Alexandria [
http://www.perseus.…]. Hypatia [
http://www.polyamor…] is credited with contributions to geometry and astrometry [
http://aries.usno.n…], and she is thought instrumental in the development of the sky-measuring astrolabe [
http://www.civiliza…]. "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all," Hypatia [
http://www.astr.ua.…] is credited with saying. "To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing."
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Sixteen hundred years ago, Hypatia [
http://www.scottlan…] became one of the world's leading scholars in mathematics and astronomy. Hypatia [
http://www.polyamor…]'s legendary knowledge, modesty, and public speaking ability flourished during the era of the Great Library of Alexandria [
http://www.perseus.…]. Hypatia [
http://www.polyamor…] is credited with contributions to geometry and astrometry [
http://aries.usno.n…], and she is thought instrumental in the development of the sky-measuring astrolabe [
http://www.civiliza…]. "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all," Hypatia [
http://www.astr.ua.…] is credited with saying. "To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing."
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