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Hypatia

noun

Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415).

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"Hypatia" Quotes from Famous Books

... knows, either higher or lower; or it may be to make alive to him a society of a different land or age. Whether he read "Treasure Island" or "Plain Tales from the Hills," "The Scarlet Letter," "Old Mortality," or "Hypatia," it is the transplanting of the reader into a new life, the doubling of his mental experience, that is the very power of fiction. The same interest attaches to these tales. In place of regarding Egyptians ...

— Egyptian Tales, Second Series - Translated from the Papyri • W. M. Flinders Petrie

... in shapeless hillocks, over which canter the mules of dragomen and chatter the tongues of tourists. Where the Lutetian Palace of Julian saluted their darling as Augustus, the sledge-hammer and the stucco of the Haussmann fiat bear desolation in their wake. Levantine dice are rattled where Hypatia's voice was heard. Bills of exchange are trafficked in where Cleopatra wandered under the palm aisles of her rose gardens. Drummers roll their caserne-calls where Drusus fell ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

Words linked to "Hypatia" : stargazer, philosopher, uranologist, astronomer