- also may have been the same
figure as the
attested Ecphantus of Croton.[citation needed]
Ecphantus was also of Syracuse. He
developed a
theory about constellations...
-
Ecphantus quadrilobus, also
known as the
crested tooth-grinder, is a
genus of short-horned gr****hopper in the
family Acrididae. It is
found mostly in...
- at
least to
Philolaus (c. 450 BC),
Heraclides Ponticus (c. 350 BC) and
Ecphantus the Pythagorean.
Roughly a
century before Copernicus, the
Christian scholar...
- to be one of
several planets going around a
central fire.
Hicetas and
Ecphantus, two
Pythagoreans of the 5th
century BC, and
Heraclides Ponticus in the...
- A more
conventional picture was
supported by Hicetas,
Heraclides and
Ecphantus in the
fourth century BCE who ****umed that
Earth rotated but did not suggest...
-
philosophers as
precursors of the
Heliocentric Theory: Hicetas,
Philolaus and
Ecphantus. At
first I
found in
Cicero that
Hicetas supposed the
earth to move. Later...
- He was born in Syracuse,
Magna Graecia. Like his
fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the
Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he
believed that the
daily movement...
- with an
account of the Pythagoreans,
Heraclides Ponticus, Philolaus, and
Ecphantus.
These authors had
proposed a
moving Earth,
which did not, however, revolve...
- lost; only a few
fragments remain. Like the
Pythagoreans Hicetas and
Ecphantus,
Heraclides proposed that the
apparent daily motion of the
stars was created...
-
Domninus of
Larissa c. 420 - c. 480
Neoplatonic Echecrates Pythagorean Ecphantus Pythagorean Empedocles Presocratic,
Pluralist Epicharmus of Kos Pythagorean...
