List of Famous people named Heraclides

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Heraclides Ponticus

First Name Heraclides

Born on January 1, -0385

Died on January 1, -0322 (aged 63)

Born in Zonguldak Province

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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Heraclides of Aenus

First Name Heraclides

Born on November 30, -0351

Died on November 30, -0401

Heraclides of Aenus was one of Plato's students. Around 360 BC, he and his brother Python assassinated Cotys I, the ruler of Thrace.

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