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  1. Heraclides of Pontus: Texts and Translation (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities)
  2. Heraclides of Pontus by H.B. Gottschalk, 1998
  3. Heraklides of Pontus: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by P. Andrew Karam, 2001
  4. Heraclides of Pontus. by H.B. Gottschalk, 1980
  5. Heraclides of Pontus: Texts and Translation, Vol. 14 by Susan Prince, 2008-01-01
  6. The Republic (Optimized for Kindle) by Plato, 2008-03-12

41. EpistemeLinks.com: Events For Ancient Philosophy
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43. Heliocentric Models Of The World - World Systems - Scientific Revolution - Dr Ro
heraclides of pontus proposed a model where earth was at the center of planetary motion but rotated on its axis daily. Heraclides believed that the Sphere
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44. Nicole Oresme - On The Heavens
Gloss This was the opinion of one called heraclides of pontus who proposed that the earth is moved circularly and that the heavens are at rest.
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NICOLE ORESME ON THE BOOK OF THE HEAVENS
AND THE WORLD OF ARISTOTLE BOOK II. CHAPTER 25. Afterwards he [Aristotle] sets forth another opinion. Text: And some say the earth is at the center of the universe and revolves and moves circularly around the pole established for this, as written in Plato's Timaeus. Gloss: This was the opinion of one called Heraclides of Pontus who proposed that the earth is moved circularly and that the heavens are at rest. Aristotle does not here refute these opinions; it perhaps seemed to him that they have little [root in] appearance and are well refuted elsewhere in philosophy and astronomy. But it seems to me, subject to correction, that one could well support and give luster to the last opinion, namely that the earth, and not the heavens, is moved with a daily movement. Firstly, I wish to state that one could not demonstrate the contrary by any experience (expenence) Secondly, [I will show that the contrary cannot be demonstrated] by reasoning. And thirdly, I will put forth reasons in support of it (that is, the diurnal rotation of the earth).
It seems to me that by [using] what I shall say regarding these experiences, one could respond to all the other [experiences] which might be adduced in this matter

45. Pseudo-sibylline Oracles - Appendices - Fragments - Apocrypha (New Testament) -
heraclides of pontus writes that she lived in the times of Solon and Cyrus. The ninth was the Phrygian, who prophesied at Ancyra; the tenth was the
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CHRISTIANITY CHRISTIANITY THE BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)" APOCRYPHA EARLY WRITINGS CHRISTIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIAS MAIN SITE COMPARATIVE RELIGION INTERFAITH DIALOGUE FORUM ABOUT MAIN SECTIONS WORLD RELIGIONS ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY GENERAL ARTICLES SPECIAL FEATURE: APOCRYPHA DIRECTORY ADVERTISING: BUSINESS DIRECTORY BRITECORP MARKETING COMMUNITY FORUMS MONOTHEISM EASTERN THOUGHT ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY COMPARATIVE STUDIES comparative religion christianity apocrypha new testament apocrypha
the sibylline oracles
milton s. terry APPENDIX. FRAGMENTS OF THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES. I. YE mortal men and fleshly, who are naught,
How quickly are ye puffed up, seeing not
The end of life! Do ye not tremble now
And fear God, him who watches over you,
5 The one who is most high, the one who knows,
The all-observant witness of all things,
All-nourishing Creator, who has put FIRST FRAGMENT. 1. This first line is cited by Clement of Alexandria, Strom ., iii, 3 [Migne, G., 8, 1117], who also in the same connection quotes a similar passage from Empedocles. Comp. Homer, Od.

46. CHAPTER I
A wellknown anecdote of heraclides of pontus suggests that Pythagoras was the first Greek thinker who called himself a philosopher.
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CHAPTER I THE MANIFOLD MEANINGS OF EXPERIENCE AND THE IDEA OF TRUTH JEAN GREISCH A well-known anecdote of Heraclides of Pontus suggests that Pythagoras was the first Greek thinker who called himself a "philosopher." The main passage, whose authenticity has been a subject of controversy until today, is the following: "Few are those who have received the gift to contemplate the most beautiful things. These humans are called ‘philosophers’ ( philosophoi ) and not ‘wise men’ ( sophoi ), for nobody is wise besides God." Does Pythagoras speak here, as Robert Joly suggests, or an anonymous Platonist, as Werner Jaeger and Walter Burkert think? In fact, there exists a strange familiarity between this statement and similar passages in Platon, for instance the following: "Among the gods, no one endeavours to philosophize ( philosopheî ), no one wants to become wise ( sophos ), because he is already wise." This statement echoes the definition of the philosopher we read in the dialogue Phaedron : "To call him wise," says Socrates, "is, at least in my opinion, excessive which suits only a god. But to call him ‘philosopher’ (

47. The Philosophical Calendar June 2003 Return To Calendar Home Page
Theme heraclides of pontus. Contact EE Pender, School of Classics, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. eepender@leeds.ac.uk. 30August 1
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48. Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Online : Ethics
puritanism (heraclides of pontus). heraclides of pontus. recognition. Recognition 3 An ethic of recognition. religion. Cohen, Hermann 3 Ethics and the
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  • 49. John Scottus Eriugena
    proposed by Tycho Brahe, and in fact Eriugena is correctly reporting Martianus’ account which seems to be a version of heraclides of pontus’ theory.
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    scottus th Scotia Maior scotti Eriugena's uniqueness lies in the fact that, quite remarkably for a scholar in Western Europe in the Carolingian era, he had considerable familiarity with the Greek language, affording him access to the Greek Christian theological tradition, from the Cappadocians to Gregory of Nyssa, hitherto almost entirely unknown in the Latin West. He also produced a complete, if somewhat imperfect, Latin translation of the Corpus Dionysii De hominis opificio and Maximus Confessor's Ambigua ad Iohannem , and possibly other works, such as Epiphanius' Anchoratus Eriugena's thought is best understood as a sustained attempt to create a consistent, systematic, Christian Neoplatonism from diverse but primarily Christian sources. Eriugena had a unique gift for identifying the underlying intellectual framework, broadly Neoplatonic but also deeply Christian, assumed by the writers of the Christian East. Drawing especially on Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus Confessor, as well as on the more familiar authorities ( auctores unum et idipsum immobile Periphyseon Patrologia Latina

    50. Www.wlym.com/pedagogicals/heraclides.html
    NOTES TO COPERNICUS PREFACEheraclides of pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean Heraclides was a student of Plato s. He is reported to have written about the rotation of the earth.
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    Heraclides of Pontus Was No Baby Boomer By Robert Trout

    51. Timeline 3000 BCE - 1850 AD
    388315 BC - heraclides of pontus explains the daily rotation of the stars by assuming that the Earth spins on its axis. He also discovers that
    http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/education/space_ex/tline1.html
    3,000 BCE - 1850 AD 3000 BCE - Babylonian astrologer-astronomers begin making methodical observations of the skies
    2000 BCE - Babylonians develop a zodiac
    1300 BCE - Chinese use of firework-rockets becomes widespread
    1000 BCE - Babylonians record sun/moon/planetary movements
    Egyptians use sun-clock
    600-400 BCE - Pythagoras of Samos sets up a school which rivals the Ionians. Parmenides of Elea, a student, proposes a spherical Earth
    made from condensed air and divided into five zones. He also sets forth ideas for stars being made of compressed fire and a
    finite, motionless, and spherical universe with illusory motion
    585 BC - Thales of Miletus, a Greek astronomer of the Ionian school, predicts the angular diameter of the sun. He also effectively predicts a
    solar eclipse, frightening Media and Lydia into negotiating for peace with the Greeks
    388-315 BC - Heraclides of Pontus explains the daily rotation of the stars by assuming that the Earth spins on its axis. He also discovers that Mercury and Venus revolve around the Sun instead of the Earth 360 BC - Flying Pigeon of Archytas made 310-230 BC - Aristarchus of Samos proposes that the Earth revolves around the Sun 276-196 BC - Eratosthenes, a Greek astronomer, measures the circumference of the Earth. He also finds the differences between planets and

    52. 20th WCP: Pythagorean Symbolism And The Philosophic Paideia In The Stromateis Of
    heraclides of pontus records that Pythagoras taught that happiness is the scientific knowledge of the perfection of the numbers of the soul. (15)
    http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciAfon.htm
    Ancient Philosophy o( Klh/mhj puqagori/zei : Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria Eugene Afonasin
    Novosibirsk State University
    afonasin@philos.nsu.ru
    This paper requires SGreek font for proper viewing. This font can be downloaded from www.perseus.tufts.edu ABSTRACT: This paper discusses certain aspects of the philosophy of education developed by the second century Christian writer Clement of Alexandria. Special attention is given to the place of his philosophy in the context of both pagan and Christian philosophical and theological movements as they relate to the Neopythagorean tradition that was revived in the first century. Introductory remarks Tracing treks of specific philosophic schools in the mixture of different intellectual traditions of the first and second centuries AD is a kind of a task which both extremely rewarding and notoriously difficult. It is rewarding, for the treks if found contribute greatly to our understanding of philosophic paths of the individual figures, especially when direct evidence, and this is usually the case, is scarce and scattered all over different sources. But on the other hand, detective search for clues in order to highlight possible sources of a given author is a dangerous adventure which may easily lead to misunderstanding. For oblique clues and 'striking similarities' while (given limited amount of evidence) prove nothing, can turn search in a direction which brings the whole thing to the dead end. But

    53. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results
    heraclides of pontus Born 387 BC in Heraclea Pontica (now Eregli, Turkey) Died 312 BC in Heraclea Pontica Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies
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    54. Oxford Scholarship Online: The Heirs Of Plato
    contributions of four minor figures connected with the Academy Philippus of Opus, Hermodorus of Syracuse, heraclides of pontus, and Crantor of Soli.
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    Dillon, John , School of Classics, University of Dublin The Heirs of Plato A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC) Print ISBN 0198237669, 2003 Abstract:
    Keywords: Academy ancient philosophy Aristotle history of philosophy ... Xenocrates Table of Contents Preface document.write(getFullTextAccess('philosophy', 'ALL')) 1. The Riddle of the Academy document.write(getAbstractAccess('philosophy', 'TOC')) document.write(getFullTextAccess('philosophy', 'ALL')) 2. Speusippus and the Search for an Adequate System of Principles document.write(getAbstractAccess('philosophy', 'TOC')) document.write(getFullTextAccess('philosophy', 'ALL')) 3. Xenocrates and the Systematization of Platonism document.write(getAbstractAccess('philosophy', 'TOC')) document.write(getFullTextAccess('philosophy', 'ALL')) 4. Polemo, Champion of Ethical Praxis document.write(getAbstractAccess('philosophy', 'TOC')) document.write(getFullTextAccess('philosophy', 'ALL')) 5. Minor Figures document.write(getAbstractAccess('philosophy', 'TOC'))

    55. Fee-Alexandra Haase. Rise Of Criticism Between Grammar, Rhetoric And Philosophy
    the son of heraclides of pontus from Heraclea in Pontus who also worked as a was emperor after Gaius; heraclides of pontus also lived in his time.
    http://www.historia.ru/2005/02/haase.htm
    windows-1251 Fee-Alexandra Haase RISE OF CRITICISM BETWEEN GRAMMAR, RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN ANCIENT ALEXANDRIA
    A survey according to the Suda and Roman documents
    This article focuses on the traditions of rhetoric in ancient Alexandria. On the one hand we find here the tradition of Biblical textual criticism of the Alexandrian type, on the other hand we find representatives that were famous for a certain type of criticism. The ancient library of Alexandria is one of the most interesting objects concerning books of ancient times. Lost over the centuries only secundary sources keep parts of the written knowledge. In other words — the lost of the Alexandrian library is the main key for the question about the literary tradition of texts and can be considered as a metaphor for the critical approaches to texts eo ipso We will have a look at the different parts of criticism according to the Suda source. So far there are no investigations made concerning the functions of criticism in Alexandria; this — of course — is a result of the lack of the documents and an approach only possible through secundary sources . Our approach is an survey investigation for 1) types of criticism according to the subjects, 2) textual criticism as general method in Alexandria and 3) the representatives of criticism in persona according to the

    56. Beyond 360°
    Some people, like heraclides of pontus, supposed that the diurnal revolution of the heavens could be accounted for by supposing that the Earth spun like a
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    Beyond 360°
    Globes around the Sun
    February 26th, 2005 The grid that Claudius Ptolemy used to map the earth is a superb instrument. The exact position of any point on the surface can be defined by just two numbers. It has only one arbitrary element: the position of the Prime Meridian. It has only one big drawback: it only works on spheres. The earth, as most people know, is not quite But rigid, non-molten objects may not collapse into spheres. When they are quite small, the pull of gravity can be too weak to counteract their structural integrity. How small? Earth is the largest of the rocky planets with a solid exterior. Venus, the next largest, is nearly a perfect sphere. Mars is slightly more oblate than Earth, but not much. Mercury, the next largest planet, is also an almost perfect sphere. Pluto, the smallest planet, has not yet been imaged adequately to make an estimate of its oblateness. The next largest object in the solar system is Ceres, the largest asteroid, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Images of Ceres are not very precise; it is nearly spherical, but may be slightly irregular. Smaller asteroids like Pallas and Vesta are at best elliptical (Vesta is actually a very squashed spheroid, more so even than Iapetus). was Posted in General
    Huygens - First Impressions
    January 14th, 2005

    57. John Curtis Franklin - Dictionaries Of Music
    In any case it was not until the 4th century BCE that the first true musicologists – Glaucus of Rhegium, heraclides of pontus, Phaenias of Eresus,
    http://www.kingmixers.com/Grove.html
    J.B. Coover and J.C. Franklin
    II.1 To the 15th Century.
    in S. Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition (London, 2001). The first known collection of musical terms is one of the oldest extant musical documents. Nabnitu Nabnitu XXXII was merely the codification. In fact, some of the Sumerian terms appear in musical contexts as early as the 24th century BCE. Besides Nabnitu, which continued to be copied through the neo-Babylonian period (c300 BCE), the first important non-Western treatise is Bharata's Natyashastra , a Sanskrit work giving a comprehensive account of dramaturgy in all its aspects, including music. In its present form, the Natyashastra is generally agreed to date from the 2nd or 3rd century CE, but its jumbled inconsistency reveals the incorporation of much earlier material of indeterminate date and origin. The problem of chronology and sources plagues Sanskrit literature in general, not least the Dattilam The first two centuries of Greek musical literature, between the Elementa Harmonica
    De architectura Disciplinae Historia naturalis
    of c77 CE, the Trivium and Quadrivium provided the basic format for most encyclopedic works up to the 17th century.

    58. New Page 1
    heraclides of pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean give the Earth motion, not indeed translatory, but like a wheel on its axis, from west to east,
    http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1991/PSCF3-91Spradley.html
    Tradition and Faith in the Copernican Revolution
    JOSEPH L. SPRADLEY
    Physics Department
    Wheaton College
    Wheaton, Illinois 60187 From: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (March 1991): 36-42. A review of the Copernican revolution reveals the importance of nonempirical factors in its development. The writings of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo show the continuity of their ideas with the Greek classical tradition and the connection of their work with their Christian faith. These human dimensions illustrate how cultural values, creative insights and personal commitments can be as important in science as empirical evidence.
    T he success of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo in developing a heliocentric system of the planets led eventually to the dominance of empiricism in much of Western thought. Ironically, the champion of this new empirical emphasis, Francis Bacon, rejected the Copernican system nearly a century after it was introduced. He stressed the need to examine the data of experience without allowing any personal bias to shape the organization of facts. Bacon's inductive method seems at odds with the deductive method of Descartes, with its emphasis on rationalism; but both agreed that nature should be interpreted by rejecting the traditions of the past.
    An examination of the Copernican Revolution reveals that it was based on a much richer approach to interpretation than the rational empiricism that came to dominate the Enlightenment. Its success depended on such nonempirical interpretative elements as imaginative constructs, aesthetic criteria, and ethical commitments. It borrowed heavily from the Greek classical tradition and found fresh motivations from the attitudes and values fostered by Christian faith.

    59. ZOROASTER TIME AND PLACE (CAis At SOAS)
    This date of 570 BC appears to have been based on a late 4th century BC statement by heraclides of pontus that Pythagoras had studied with Zoroaster in
    http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/Oric.Basirov/zoro
    University of London Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG United Kingdom Home About CAIS Articles News Update ... Links If you require any further information please contact: Shapour Suren-Pahlav cais@soas.ac.uk
    ZOROASTER'S TIME AND PLACE By Dr. Oric Basirov
    Paper I 20 October 1998 INTRODUCTION
    In the absence of a valid historical and archaeological evidence we must consider Zoroaster a prehistorical man of an unknown antiquity. Nor is it possible to pinpoint where exactly he came from and the land where he first preached his truly extra ordinary faith. Nonetheless the first step in studying this "earliest of the great prophets" is to ascertain his origins, both geographically and chronologically. The available evidence, however, is either grossly misleading, or clearly inadequate. We have two distinct bodies of evidence, which can be classified as "the old" and "the new". The former is based on the classical, Byzantine, and non-Gathic Zoroastrian literature, and the latter on the recent archaeological excavations and the Gathas.
    THE OLD BODY OF EVIDENCE
    We now know that the old body of evidence is based more on legend than fact. Nonetheless, their significance cannot be underrated because the majority of the modern Zoroastrians still believe in the legendary origins of their great prophet.

    60. Those Hairy Stars
    One of Aristotle s students, one heraclides of pontus, taught that comets were inflamed clouds, high above the Earth. It fell to later astronomers such as
    http://www.sipe.com/halebopp/whatare5.htm
    "Those Hairy Stars a look at comets through history" by Carolyn Collins Petersen
    Comets Those Hairy Stars
    by Carolyn Collins Petersen
    It had been a long, dry summer in the high desert. The shaman had called for rain many times, to no avail. He had looked to the stars each night for some clue about when the crop-killing drought was over, but they looked the same as they always had distant, twinkling, inscrutable.
    The shaman's assistant, flush with the enthusiasm of youth, decided one night to look at the stars without his mentor's guidance. He crept away from the village, and climbed atop the highest mesa. From there, he had an almost panoramic view of the sky. All night he waited... growing sleepy, but never quite dropping off into slumber. Just before dawn, he stretched and shook himself... a night's sleep wasted for nothing! He glanced to the east... and saw it... a faint smudge near a bright star. What could it possibly be? Perhaps this was the omen his master wanted! He paused long enough to scratch a map of the sky on the sandstone wall of the mesa, and then ran down the trail to the village, his excited shouts waking the entire village... On another continent, a woman sat quietly in a grove of trees on the edge of a large flat plain. She was deep in meditation about what the sky had presented to her just before sunrise a strange-looking star that appeared to have the beard of an elder man. Nothing in her learning had prepared her for this sight and she searched her memories for anything that would help her understand this latest manifestation from the Mother of All. Not far away, her clan waited for an explanation of the mysterious apparition that seemed to dance in the early morning twilight.

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