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Heraclides Ponticus

385 BC - 322 BC

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Heraclides Ponticus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC) was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, and migrated to Athens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heraclides Ponticus has received more than 193,585 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Heraclides Ponticus is the 273rd most popular philosopher (up from 318th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 306th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Heraclides Ponticus was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was famous for his theory that the earth rotates on its axis.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Heraclides Ponticus ranks 273 out of 1,267Before him are Abraham ibn Ezra, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Panaetius, Epimenides, and Jacques Maritain. After him are Alcmaeon of Croton, Antonio Negri, Pherecydes of Syros, Priscus, Sri Aurobindo, and Euclid of Megara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 385 BC, Heraclides Ponticus ranks 1After him are Shen Buhai, and Mazaeus. Among people deceased in 322 BC, Heraclides Ponticus ranks 3Before him are Diogenes, and Demosthenes. After him are Hypereides, Leonnatus, Cleomenes of Naucratis, and Ariarathes I of Cappadocia.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Heraclides Ponticus ranks 221 out of 1,347Before him are Alexios II Komnenos (1169), Andranik (1865), Philippikos Bardanes (700), Beyhan Sultan (1497), Fahri Korutürk (1903), and Gregory Thaumaturgus (213). After him are Theodosius III (700), Alexander (870), Michael I Cerularius (1005), Priscus (410), Theophanes the Confessor (758), and John VII Palaiologos (1370).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Heraclides Ponticus ranks 20Before him are Apollonius of Tyana (15), Bias of Priene (-600), Arcesilaus (-315), Xenocrates (-396), Cleanthes (-330), and Michael Psellos (1018). After him are Priscus (410), Alexander of Aphrodisias (200), Gemistus Pletho (1355), Thrasymachus (-459), Strato of Lampsacus (-335), and Nicephorus Gregoras (1295).