List of Famous people with last name Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus

First Name Heraclides
Born on January 1, -0385
Died on January 1, -0322 (aged 63)

Heraclides Ponticus 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 doubted by some.

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