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Book of the Uppermost page 3a
Michelangelo Zetterquist
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Hypatia, a Greek word meaning Uppermost. Hypatia is a great scholar AD 350–70?; died March 415 . She was a co-creator of the revolutionary concept of Heliocentrism, the idea that the earth and all other planets revolve around the sun. She was lecturer at the great library of Alexandria and was a witness to its destruction in her lifetime. Shortly afterward she was murdered by the same angry mob. Hypatia has been presented as the Sphinx with a great library built up inside of it. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been built proverbially onto her head. It has been written by ancient sources that Hypatia was the inventor of the astrolabe which I will most likely place above the tower to show that her ideas were a source of light
There is this historical drama on my netflix called Agora, I was surprised that it turned out to be a good movie. I already had this idea of a library within a sphinxes body symbolizing the great library years ago just sitting in a sketchbook.
When I was watching Agora at first I didn't know I was watching an actual history and it hit me all at once that the there was an actual second burning that had an interesting if not more so history behind it.
When I had the information of the second burning of Alexandria this time by the Christians.
Socrates Scholasticus wrote also pertaining to her character:
"There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease of manner which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not infrequently appeared in public in the presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more."
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