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	Heraclides Ponticus Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heraclides Ponticus, Greek philosopher and miscellaneous writer, born at Heraclea in Pontus, flourished in the 4th century BC.
		On one occasion, for instance, Heraclea was afflicted with famine, and the Pythian priestess at Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a golden crown to that philosopher.
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honour in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while the dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bite of a serpent.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heraclides_ponticus.html (363 words)

	Heraclides of Pontus Biography / Profile of Heraclides of Pontus Biographies
		Heraclides of Pontus Biography / Profile of Heraclides of Pontus Biographies
		Born at Heracleia in Pontus, the son of the wealthy Euthyphron, Heraclides was a descendant of one of the founders of Heracleia.
		Heraclides was a most prolific writer, composing dialogues on ethics, natural science, literary criticism, music, rhetoric, and the history of philosophy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-heraclides-of-pontus (207 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heraclides Ponticus ( 387 - 312 BCE), also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey.
		Heraclides' father was Euthyphron, a wealthy nobleman who sent him to study at the Academy in Athens under its founder Plato and under his successor Speusippus, though he also studied with Aristotle.
		However, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric, notwithstanding doubts about attribution of many of the works.
	www.iridis.com /Heraclides_Ponticus (297 words)

	Peter Lautner, Rutgers & Budapest (plautner@rci
		Both Heraclides of Pontus and Aclepiades of Bithynia represented a similar theory.
		Heraclides may have explained sense perception in terms of streams of these elementary particles passing from the object to the sense organ (fr.82 W).
		Hieronymus may have relied on Heraclides a great deal (as he did in religious matters as well), but an important difference is that he did not regard these particles/corpuscles as homogeneous.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/sosa/ClassPhilo/Lautner.htm (664 words)

	HERACLIDES - LoveToKnow Article on HERACLIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is said to have been vain and fat, and to have been so fond of display that he was nicknamed Pompicus, or the Showy (unless the epithet refers to his literary style).
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honor in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while thc dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bit of a serpent.
		The trick was discovered, and Heraclides received only ridicule instead of divine honors (Diogenes Lartius v.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HERACLIDES.htm (319 words)

	HERACLIDES PONTICUS - Online Information article about HERACLIDES PONTICUS
		HERACLIDES PONTICUS, Greek philosopher and miscellaneous writer, born at
		, and the Pythian priestess at Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a golden crown to that philosopher.
		Whatever may be the truth about these stories, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HERACLIDES_PONTICUS.html (367 words)

	Heraclides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heraclides of Pontus has achieved fame for a long time as the first to propose that the sun was the centre of the
		Perhaps Heraclides had the last laugh here for indeed he did become a hero after is death based on a false interpretation of his writing.
		Heraclides of Pontus, Plato 's famous pupil, is known on clear evidence to have discovered that Venus and Mercury revolve round the sun like satellites.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Heraclides.html (753 words)

	Pontus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Lying in a fertile plain crossed by the Yesil River, the town is at the foot of a hill crowned by a ruined citadel.
		Zela, the ancient temple state of Pontus, was famous as the site where Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces II, son of Mithradates VI of Pontus, and said of his victory, “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”).
		Biographical sketches of Klas Pontus Arnoldson of Sweden and Fredrik Bajer of Denmark.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9060812 (683 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus
		Greek philosopher and miscellaneous writer, born at Heraclea in Pontus, flourished in the 4th century BC.
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honor in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while the dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bite of a serpent.
		On his deathbed he is said to have requested a friend to hide his body as soon as life was extinct, and, by putting a serpent in its place, induce his townsmen to suppose that he had been carried up to heaven.
	www.nndb.com /people/675/000096387 (296 words)

	MORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, Heraclides' universe, like that of Hicetus and Ecphantus, was as yet geocentric and his Earth spun at the center of the fixed stars.
		Based upon these historical accounts, it is clear that a special chain of the Greek mathematician-astronomer-cosmologist-philosophers consisting primarily of Philolaus, Heraclides, and Aristarchus had successively evolved a concept of the universe which was in fair agreement with that of Copernicus over 1750 years later.
		Heraclides' model of the spinning Earth was one of the attempts made to overcome those difficulties within the context of the geocentric universe.
	www.om-sun.com /more.php?id=A31_0_1_0_M (3651 words)

	History of Philosophy 10
		To the Old Academy belonged Speusippus, Xenoerates, Heraclides of Pontus, Philip of Opus, Crates, and Crantor ; Arcesilaus and Carneades are the principal representatives of the Middle Academy, while Philo of Larissa and Antiochus of Ascalon are the best-known members of the New Academy.
		Our sources of information concerning the history of the doctrines of the three Academies are for the most part secondary; they are scanty and cannot be relied upon in matters of detail.
		Heraclides of Pontus is remarkable for having taught the diurnal revolution of the earth on its axis, and the immobility of the fixed stars.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop10.htm (771 words)

	Diogenes Laertius: Life of Heraclides, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		After he came to Athens, he was at first a disciple of Speusippus, but he also attended the schools of the Pythagorean philosophers, and he adopted the principles of Plato; last of all he became a pupil of Aristotle, as we are told by Sotion in his book entitled the Successions.
		And all this was done; and while the citizens were all attending his funeral and extolling his character, the serpent hearing the noise, crept out of his clothes and threw the multitude into confusion.
		And afterwards everything was revealed, and Heraclides was seen, not as he hoped to have been, but as he really was.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlheraclides.htm (706 words)

	Gottschalk \| Heraclides of Pontus \| Book #19834 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A follower of Plato, Heraclides of Pontus (c.388-315 BC) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of philosophy.
		Famous in antiquity for the literary and artistic merit of dialogues ranging in subject matter from myths and music to Pythagoras, he has attracted the attention of modern scholars by his obscure theory of matter and an astronomical hypothesis which seems to have partly anticipated Aristarchus and Kepler.
		The book goes on to deal at length with the dialogue, Heraclides' corpuscular theory of matter, the astronomical fragments, ethical and religious fragments, including his influential contribution to the legend of Pythagoras, and historical and literary studies.
	www.powellschicago.com /html/reprints/19834.html (140 words)

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		Whatever were the arguments upon which the ancients founded their theory, certain it is, they clearly apprehended, that the planets revolved upon their own axis..
		Heraclides of Pontus, and Exphantus, two celebrated Pythagoreans, intimated this truth long ago, and made use of a very apt comparison to convey their idea, saying, that the earth turned from west to east, just as a wheel does upon its axis or centre.
		Cicero ascribes the same notion to Nicetas of Syracuse, and quotes Theophrastus to warrant what he advances ; this is he whom Diogcnus Laertius names Hycetas, whose opinion was, that the celerity of the earth’s motion about its own axis, and otherwise, was the only cause of the apparent revolutions of the heavenly bodies.
	wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/wesley_natural_philosophy/duten15.htm (834 words)

	Timeline related to Greek Astronomy
		Heraclides of Pontus (390-322) BC says that Mercury and Venus rotate around the Sun.
		Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in the sense of translation, but by way of turning as on a axle, like a wheel, from west to east, about its own centre.
		About 330 BC Heraclides of Pontus (Ηρακλείδης ο Ποντικός) said that the earth turns daily on its axis "while the heavenly things were at rest..., considered the cosmos to be infinite..., [and] with the Pythagoreans, considered each planet to be a world with an earth-like body and with an atmosphere" (Dreyer 1906:123-125).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/TLAstronomy.htm (2677 words)

	Campusweb \| Obituaries news item
		Dr Gottschalk was an outstanding scholar, with an international reputation in the field of post-Aristotelian philosophy, in particular the Peripatetic School and philosophers including Theophrastus and Heraclides.
		His penetrating acumen and exceptionally wide general erudition in the classical area fitted him for the exacting, highly complex and meticulous scholarship required to reconstruct, analyse and interpret ancient texts often surviving in only fragmentary form.
		In 2003, an international conference on Heraclides of Pontus was organised at Oxley Hall, in Dr Gottschalk’s honour.
	campus.leeds.ac.uk /newsincludes/newsitem1940.htm (503 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: The Heirs of Plato
		In this chapter, Dillon considers four minor figures of the Academy: Philippus of Opus, Hermodorus of Syracuse, Heraclides of Pontus, who were all students of Plato; and Crantor of Soli, a contemporary of Polemo.
		Philippus is best known for editing Plato's Laws for publication, and he was the real author of the Epinomis : as a philosopher, he is distinguished for elevating the rational World-Soul to the status of the supreme principle, and for identifying astronomy as the true path to the knowledge of God.
		Heraclides, who supervised the Academy during Plato's third trip to Sicily, was nevertheless remarkably free from academic orthodoxy: his most distinctive philosophical position is that the soul is light, or aether, and therefore a quasi-material substance.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/philosophy/0198237669/acprof-0198237669-chapter-5.html (252 words)

	Nicole Oresme - On the Heavens
		Text: And some say the earth is at the center of the universe and revolves and moves circularly around the pole established for this, as written in Plato's Timaeus.
		Gloss: This was the opinion of one called Heraclides of Pontus who proposed that the earth is moved circularly and that the heavens are at rest.
		Aristotle does not here refute these opinions; it perhaps seemed to him that they have little [root in] appearance and are well refuted elsewhere in philosophy and astronomy.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/02-TeachingResources/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0040_nicoleOresme.html (2226 words)

	Aristarchus of Samos
		B.C. His results were only limited by the accuracy of the measurements of his day, which suffered from a lack of technology.
		Interestingly, Aristarchus was preceded by Heraclides of Pontus ( ca.
		B.C. who proposed that the motions of Mercury and Venus were due to the fact that they revolved around the Sun, while the latter revolves around the Earth.
	www.russellcottrell.com /greek/aristarchus.htm (576 words)

	Heliocentric Models of the World - World Systems - Scientific Revolution - Dr Robert A. Hatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heraclides of Pontus proposed a model where earth was at the center of planetary motion but rotated on its axis daily.
		Heraclides believed that the Sphere of Fixed Stars was at rest.
		A number of ancients followed Heraclides' suggestion, among them Hicetas, Ecphantus, Martianus Capella, and perhaps others.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/resource-ref-read/chief-systems/08-0COP2-WSYS.html (246 words)

	cciv243.Solon
		Solon's mother, so Heraclides of Pontus tells us, was a cousin of the mother of Pisistratus.
		However, Heraclides of Pontus tells us that Solon had already passed a decree to this effect for the benefit of a disabled man named Thersippus, and that Pisistratus was merely following his example.
		According to Heraclides of Pontus, Solon lived on for many years after Pisistratus had made himself tyrant, but Phanisas of Eresus maintains that he did not survive for more than two.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /Images2/cciv243.Solon.html (11361 words)

	Books on Literature - Postscript Books by Mail - New Arrivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A follower of Plato, Heraclides of Pontus or Ponticus (c.388-315 BC) was famous in antiquity for his dialogues, but has attracted the attention of modern scholars by his obscure theory of matter and an astronomical hypothesis which seems to partly anticipate Aristarchus and Kepler.
		Gottschalk attempts to reconstruct the thought of Heraclides, beginning with a biographical introduction and discussing his dialogues, his corpuscular theory of matter, and his influential contribution to the legend of Pythagoras.
		An outstanding Aristotelian scholar and an influential philosopher in his own right in the sphere of ethics, Ross presents an edition of the 'Metaphysics' that provides a revised Greek text with full critical introduction and commentary in English.
	www.psbooks.co.uk /Literature_Rec.asp?pgn=47 (1077 words)

	pontus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	Oxford University Press: The Heirs of Plato: John Dillon
		Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of Plato, were independent philosophers in their own right, and felt free to develop his heritage in individual directions.
		This is also true of other personalities attached to the school, such as Philippus of Opus, Heraclides of Pontus, and Crantor of Soli.
		After an introductory chapter on the school itself, and a summary of Plato's philosophical heritage, John Dillon devotes a chapter to each of the school heads, and another to the other chief characters, exploring both what holds them together and what sets them apart.
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	PROGRAMME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Professor Tiziano Dorandi (Paris): The papyrological tradition of Heraclides of Pontus
		Professor Johannis Taifacos (Cyprus): Heraclides of Pontus and Clearchus of Soloi
		Dr Timothy P. Bridgman (New York): Heraclides of Pontus and the Hyperboreans
	www.leeds.ac.uk /classics/events/theophform.htm (285 words)

	UCL Department of Greek and Latin: Research: Theophrastus
		Greek and Latin / Research / Theophrastus Project : Conference on Heraclides of Pontus
		Heraclides and the invention of Greek musical history
		Heraclides of Pontus and the motions of the heavenly bodies
	www.ucl.ac.uk /GrandLat/people/sharples/conf2003.htm (104 words)

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