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Hicetas
- For other people named Hicetas, see Hicetas (disambiguation)
Hicetas (ca. 400 BC – ca. 335 BC) was a
Greek philosopher of the Pythagorean School. He was born in Syracuse. Like his fellow
Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the
rotation of the Earth around its axis. This
trio of philosophers is reported by Calcidius to have thought that
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