Hypatia

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

All these years, I've been studying.

With absolutely no life of my own.

And I wonder, what was The Point?

Oh, forget about what was said today.

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

Is this all life holds for me?

What else?

I doubt anyone could see you as a...devoted wife and mother.

I think...

I think EVERYONE in The City

knows the story of the handkerchief.

So...

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

My father loved a woman.

Even he...

Who have I ever loved?

Except you, Libanius.

If I could just...

Just unravel this...

Just a little bit more.

And just get a little closer

to The Answer, then...

Then I would...

Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.

Why?

Why does that mean so much to you?

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

Right now, this very second, the whole Earth could be moving...

And no one realizes it.

Except you and me.

Believe me Lady, 

it's best no one does.

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

Do you really not think it important?

I don't understand why you insist on moving the ground we walk on.

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

Well, you saw for yourself

what happened on the boat.

Yes, I did. But that does not

necessarily mean the Earth moves.

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

What if it DOES?

Hypatia, look around you :

Death, horror, destruction —

IF the stars move in a circle,

WHY would they share

their Perfection with US?

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

So we don't move...

In a circle.

We don't move...

Circle.

We do not move in a circle.

Ever since Plato...

All of them: Aristarchus,

Hipparchus, Ptolemy...

They have all tried to reconcile their observations

with circular orbits but...

What if another shape

is hiding in the heavens?

Another shape?

Lady, there is no shape purer

than the circle. 

You taught us that.

HYPATIA of Alexandria :

I know, but suppose,

just suppose the "purity" of the circle has blinded us from seeing

anything beyond it.

In the same way that the glare of the sunblind us from actually seeing the stars.

I must begin all over with...

with new eyes.

I must rethink everything.

I have to rethink everything.