Heraclides Ponticus
Heraclides Ponticus ( Greek   Herakleides ; c. 390 BC - c. 310 BC)  wani masanin falsafa ne kuma masani ilimin taurari na Girka wanda aka haife shi a Heraclea Pontica, Karadeniz Ereğli, kasar Turkiyya ta yau, kuma ya yi hijira zuwa Athens. An fi tunawa da shi da shawarar cewa Duniya tana jujjuyawa a kan kusurwoyinta, daga yamma zuwa gabas, sau ɗaya a kowane sa'a 24.  Ana kuma yaba masa a matsayin wanda ya kafa ka'idar heliocentric, kodayake wasu suna shakkar hakan.

Rayuwa 
Mahaifin Heraclides shine Euthyphron,  hamshakin attajiri ne wanda ya aika dansa karatu a Kwalejin Platonic da ke Athens karkashin wanda ya kafa a wato Plato kuma karkashin magajinsa Speusippus. A cewar Suda, Plato,  akan hanyar zuwa Sicily a 361/360 BC, ya bar makarantar a karkashin kulawar Heraclides. An kusa zaɓe Heraclides a matsayin magajin Speusippus don jagorancin makarantar a shekarar 339/338 BC, amma ya yi rashin nasara ga Xenocrates .

Aiki 
Dukkan rubuce-rubucen Heraclides sun ɓace; 'yan gutsun-gutsun ne kawai suka rage. Kamar daliban Pythagoras irinsu Hicetas da Ecphantus, Heraclides ya ba da amince da cewa an halicci taurari ne ta hanyar jujjuyawar duniya akan hanyoyinta sau ɗaya a rana. Wannan ra'ayi ya ci karo da ra'ayin mabiya Aristotle da aka yarda da shi na akan duniyoyi, wanda ya ce duniya ta daidaita kuma taurari da sauran duniyoyi da ke cikin sassansu ma suna a daidaice ne. Simplicius ya ce Heraclides ya ba da shawarar cewa za'a iya bayyana motsin duniyoyi idan Duniya tana motsi yayin da ita kuma Rana ke tsaya a waje daya. 

Duk da cewa wasu masana tarihi  sun ayyana cewa Heraclides ya koyar da cewa Venus da Mercury suna kewaye da Rana, cikakken bincike na majiyoyin sun nuna cewa "babu wani wuri a cikin tsohuwar wallafe-wallafen da ke ambaton Heraclides na Pontus da ke da cikakken bayani game da goyon bayansa ga wadannan koyarwa. na matsayin zahayar rana da duniyoyii".

Bayanan kula

Nassoshi

Kara karantawa 

 Diogenes Laërtius trans. CD Yonge (1853) "Rayuwa na Fitattun Falsafa"
 O. Voss (1896) De Heraclidis Pontic vita et scriptis
 Wehrli, F. (1969) Herakleides Pontikos. Die Schule des Aristoteles vol. 7, 2 ta edn. Basel.
 Heraclides na Pontus. Rubutu da fassarori , editan Eckart Schütrumpf; masu fassara Peter Stork, Jan van Ophuijsen, da Susan Prince, New Brunswick, NJ, Masu Buga Ma'amala, 2008
 Heraclides na Pontus. Tattaunawa , Edited by William W. Fortenbaugh, Elizabeth Pender, New Brunswick, NJ : Masu Buga Kasuwanci, 2009
 Hans B. Gottschalk (1980) Heraclides na Pontus, New York, Oxford University Press
 978-0-486-22332-2 
 O. Neugebauer (1975) Tarihin Tsohuwar Taurari na Lissafi

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje 

  

Masana falsafa na karni na 4 BC