Heraclides Ponticus
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 390 B.C.
- Died
- 310 B.C.
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Heraclidis Pontici qui Aristotelis aetate uixit allegoriae in Homeri fabulas de dijs nunc primum e Graeco sermone in Latinum translatae
- Heraclides of Pontus
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Psychophysiological biomarkers of workplace stressors
· 2010 · cited 224x
- Psychosocial Stress at Work Doubles the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Middle-Aged Women
· 2009 · cited 175x
- Work Stress, Obesity and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Gender‐Specific Bidirectional Effect in the Whitehall II Study
· 2012 · cited 133x
- Secessionist minorities and external involvement
· 1990 · cited 94x
- Social mobility and social accumulation across the life course in relation to adult overweight and obesity: the Whitehall II study
· 2009 · cited 78x
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 385 BCE
- Died
- 310 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Heraclea Pontica
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Speusippus
- Movement
- Platonism
- Image
- Heraclides Ponticus - Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae.png
Article
Heraclides Ponticus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC) was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, and migrated to Athens. He is best remembered for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours. He is also hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory, although this is disputed.
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