Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus in Wikipedia

Heraclides Ponticus (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός; c. 390-c. 310 BC[1]), also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. He is best remembered for proposing that the earth rotates on its axis, from east to west, once every 24 hours.[2] H...

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Heraclīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Surnamed Pontĭcus. A Greek philosopher, born at Heraclea in Pontus about B.C. 380. He came early to Athens, where he became a disciple of Plato and Aristotle, and had made a reputation by about B.C. 340. He was the author of some sixty works on a great variety of subjects-philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, poetry, political and literary histo...

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