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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?
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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Ever since Plato
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all of them Aristarchus Hipparchus Ptolemy
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they have all tried to reconcile their observations
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with circular orbits but
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What if another shape is hiding in the heavens
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Another shape
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Lady there is no shape purer than the circle You taught us that
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I know but suppose just suppose the
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purity of the circle
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has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it
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The same way that the glare of the sun blind us from actually seeing the stars
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I must begin all over with
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Movie Summary
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Al...
