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His birthdate can be inferred approximately from his relationship to various members of the Academy and from his statement that the destruction of the city of Helice in Achaea by an earthquake (373 B. C. ) took place in his lifetime.
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His birthdate can be inferred approximately from his relationship to various members of the Academy and from his statement that the destruction of the city of Helice in Achaea by an earthquake (373 B. C. ) took place in his lifetime.
He came to Plato’s Academy in the charge of Heraclides when he went to Sicily.
Although counted as one of Plato’s pupils (Heraclides himself said that Plato sent him to Colophon to collect the poems of Antimachus), he was apparently more closely associated with Speusippus, Plato’s successor as head of the Academy.
He also attended Aristotle’s lectures.
According to Suidas, Plato, on his departure for Sicily, left his pupils in charge of Heraclides.
The latter part of his life was spent at Heraclea.
Various idle stories are related about him.
This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honour in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while the dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bite of a serpent.
On his death-bed he is said to have requested a friend to hide his body as soon as life was extinct, and, by putting a serpent in its place, induce his townsmen to suppose that he 'had been carried up to heaven.
Many of the works attributed to him, however, are probably by one or more persons of the same name. The extant fragment of a treatise On Constitutions is probably a compilation from the Politics of Aristotle by Heraclides Lembos, who lived in the time of Ptolemy VI.
He is best remembered for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours.
He is also frequently hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory, although this is doubted.
Upon the death of Speusippus (339 B. C. ), Heraclides was one of the candidates to succeed him, but Xenocrates won by a few votes, whereupon Heraclides returned to his native city, where he died some time later.
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