Xenocrates of Chalcedon (396-314 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4108. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Philospher and mathematician, born in Chalcedon (now Kadikoy, near Istanbul), Bithynia (now Turkey), succeeded Speusippus as head of the Athenian Academy which PLATO had founded. Believed that matter is composed of indivisible units (and thus an early atomist). He believed (and perhaps originated the notion) that people have a threefold existence, mind, body and soul, and that they die twice, onc...

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