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were dragged through the streets and burned in a fire.
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Orestes was outlawed forever and Cyril,
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took control of the power in Alexandria.
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Later, Cyril was declared a Saint and Doctor of the Church.
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Although not any of Hypatia works remains,
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it is known that she was an exceptional astronomer,
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well-known for the mathematical study of conical curves.
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One thousand two hundred years later,
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in the 17th century, astronomer Johannes Kepler,
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described that one of those curves,,
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the ellipse, governs the movement of the planets.