Heracleides

British  

/ ˈpɒntəs, ˌhɛrəˈklaɪdiːz /

noun

1. ?390–?322 _bc , Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis

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Example Sentences

Of course to the mind of Heracleides this is all silly talk; since the one great object is to keep money by whatever means.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Heracleides insisted that this was all he had got by his trafficking.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham

What he said annoyed Heracleides, who was afraid of being ousted from the friendship of Seuthes, and from that day forward he did his best to calumniate Xenophon before Seuthes.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Heracleides, in the fourth century B. C., said that Mercury and Venus circled around the sun, and in the third century Aristarchus of Samos actually anticipated, though it was a mere guess, the heliocentric theory.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various