Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Sixteen hundred years ago, Hypatia became one of the world's leading scholars in mathematics and astronomy. Hypatia 's legendary knowledge, modesty, and public speaking ability flourished during the era of the Great Library of Alexandria . Hypatia is credited with contributions to geometry and astrometry , and she is thought instrumental in the development of the sky-measuring astrolabe . To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
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