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Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a physician of ancient Greece who was said to have been the sixteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates I, who lived probably in the fifth century BC.
Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) in origin was any individual of the legendary clan of the Heracleidae, the mythological patronymic applying to persons descended from Hercules.
12 de dic. de 2017 · Greek medicine was finally established in Rome from 91 B.C.E. by the Bithynian doctor Asclepiades (Ασκλεπιάδης, 130 B.C.E.–40 B.C.E.) who was, at first, a rhetorical teacher and later a physician, and friend of Cicero.
Heraclides is a Greek astronomer who proposed that the earth rotates on its axis once a day and who may have believed that the sun was the centre of the solar system. Biography.
Heraclides' significance for posterity lies in four directions: in the distinctive form of his dialogues; in physics, particularly astronomy; in his eschatology; and in his contribution to the Pythagorean legend (see PYTHAGORAS).
30 de dic. de 2013 · The ancient world and the birth of medicine. From the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Mediterranean, it is in the land of Egypt where medicine probably started. This is the story of a great period in the history of medicine. But let us start at the beginning.
Gottschalk H. B., Heraclides of Pontus (Oxford, 1980), 58–87, discusses very competently the astronomical fragments but I differ with his interpretations of the two crucial texts for any so-called Heraclidean heliocentrism.
