Seleucus of Seleucia

Seleucus of Seleucia
Σέλευκος ὁ Σελεύκειος
Bornc. 190 BC
Seleucia, Seleucid Empire
Diedc. 150 BC
unknown
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Seleucus of Seleucia (Greek: Σέλευκος Seleukos; born c. 190 BC; fl. c. 150 BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and philosopher. Coming from Seleucia on the Tigris, Mesopotamia, the capital of the Seleucid Empire, or, alternatively, Seleukia on the Erythraean Sea, he is best known as a proponent of heliocentrism and for his theory of the causes of tides.

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