• Heraclides Ponticus (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC) was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea...
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  • physician of the Empiric school Heraclides Ponticus (390–310 BC), philosopher and astronomer who suggested heliocentrism Heraclides of Aenus, one of Plato's...
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    only one sibyl, and instances Heraclides Ponticus as the first ancient writer to distinguish several sibyls: Heraclides names at least three sibyls, the...
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    serious model of a heliocentric Solar System, having developed some of Heraclides Ponticus' theories (speaking of a "revolution of the Earth on its axis" every...
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    with the sun) around which all other bodies of the cosmos revolved. Heraclides Ponticus posited a geo-heliocentric system, where the sun rotated around the...
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    called the "celestial Hades" appears in the writings of Plato and Heraclides Ponticus and in many other pagan writers. This concept is distinguished from...
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    mythographer, born in Heraclea. Heraclides Ponticus, philosopher and astronomer, born in Heraclea Evagrius Ponticus, philosopher, monk, and ascetic Xenagoras...
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    ficta vix est quod moneam, et proditur hoc fraudis genere usus esse Heraclides Ponticus......Heraclidis igitur crediderim esse fr.1-3; nam fr.4 non dubito...
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    Protrepticus. Aristotle's disciples Dicaearchus, Aristoxenus, and Heraclides Ponticus also wrote on the same subject. Most of the major sources on Pythagoras's...
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    Boreas, the Riphean Mountains and Hyperborea all near the Danube. Heraclides Ponticus and Antimachus in contrast identified the Riphean Mountains with...
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    (2011). Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4419-8116-5. James...
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  • Graecia. Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused...
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    are myths concerning his death: a tradition, which is traced to Heraclides Ponticus, represented him as having been removed from the Earth; whereas others...
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    Hicetas and Ecphantus, two Pythagoreans of the 5th century BC, and Heraclides Ponticus in the 4th century BC, believed that the Earth rotated on its axis...
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  • Neoplatonic Heliodorus of Alexandria fl. 5th century Neoplatonic Heraclides Lembus Heraclides Ponticus 387 - 312 BC Academic Platonist Heraclitus Presocratic,...
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    western edge of the bay of Sinus Iridum. Promontorium Heraclides is named after Heraclides Ponticus, a Greek philosopher and astronomer. The Soviet lunar...
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    the first to document and predict a solar eclipse (585 BC), or Heraclides Ponticus. They also saw the "wanderers" or "planetai" (our planets). The regularity...
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  • authors. Heraclides was an Egyptian civil servant who lived during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (2nd century BC). The Suda mentions a Heraclides of Oxyrhynchus...
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    2011). Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4419-8116-5. Retrieved...
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    above the Moon. Colotes accused Plato of plagiarizing Zoroaster, and Heraclides Ponticus wrote a text titled Zoroaster based on his perception of "Zoroastrian"...
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  • Dirk L. Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus. Springer 2011. Finkelberg, A. "On Cosmogony and Eypyrosis in Heraclitus...
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  • around the world with an arrow symbolizing Apollo, eating no food. Heraclides Ponticus (c. 390 BC–c. 310 BC) wrote that Abaris flew on it. Plato (Charmides...
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    homocentric spheres centered upon the Earth. Their younger contemporary Heraclides Ponticus proposed that the Earth rotates around its axis. A different approach...
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  • wrote on Hesiod, for Diogenes Laërtius says, that Chamaeleon accused Heraclides Ponticus of having stolen from him his work concerning Homer and Hesiod. The...
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    seventy-five or eighty." Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 5.3.8–9 (citing Heraclides Ponticus fr. 88 Wehrli), Diogenes Laërtius 1.12, 8.8, Iamblichus VP 58. Burkert...
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    Earth rotates is very old, dating at least to Philolaus (c. 450 BC), Heraclides Ponticus (c. 350 BC) and Ecphantus the Pythagorean. Roughly a century before...
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    "Description of Greece". Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved April 19, 2024. Heraclides Ponticus (FHG fr. 43) Herodotus. The Histories. 5.79. Plutarch. Cam. 19. Plutarch...
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  • 230 BC – Greece, Aristarchus of Samos 390 BC – 310 BC – Greece, Heraclides Ponticus 380 BC – 320 BC – Greece, Menaechmus 300 BC – India, Bhagabati Sutra...
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  • existence prior even to Menippus, with authors such as Antisthenes, Heraclides Ponticus and Bion of Borysthenes. Varro's own 150 books of Menippean satires...
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    (2011). Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: from Thales to Heraclides Ponticus. Springer. ISBN 978-1441981158. Luchte, James (2011). Early Greek...
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