Hicetas

Also known as Hicetas of Syracuse

Hicetas ( or ; c. 400 – c. 335 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Pythagorean School. He was born in Syracuse, Magna Graecia. Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis. When Nicolaus Copernicus referred to Nicetus Syracusanus (Nicetus of Syracuse) in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) as having been cited by Cicero as an ancient who also argued that the Earth moved, it is believed that he was actually referring to Hicetas. Copernicus, se

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Place of birth: Syracuse
Occupation: astronomer
Languages spoken: Ancient Greek
Native language: Ancient Greek
Field of work: philosophy
Movement: Pythagoreanism

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floruit: 0500-00-00
writing language: Ancient Greek
name in native language: Ἱκέτας
described by source: Pauly–Wissowa

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Cicero refers to Hicetas in the Academica, volume II, citing in turn Theophrastus. According to Heath:

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