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

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

The slanderous tongue of Heracleides had whispered him:—it was not safe to hand over fortified towns to a man with a force at his back.

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