Hicetas

Hicetas (c. 400 BC – c. 335 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Pythagorean School. He was born in Syracuse. He knew that daily movement of permanent stars was dependent upon the rotation of the Earth around its axis. Like the Pythagoreans Ecphantes and Heraclitus he asserted (correctly) that Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun.

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See also: Hicetas, 335 BC, 400 BC, Ancient Greeks, Axis, Biography, Earth, Heraclitus, Mercury (planet)