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A Polish astronomer named Copernicus (1473-1543) rudely pointed out: Sorry earthlings, we spin around the sun, not vice versa.
Aryabhatt, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician, pointed out before Copernicus did that the solar system is heliocentric, not geocentric.
Two years later, Lemaître's model was confirmed by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who had observed that the galaxies everywhere around us were receding.
In the matter of Celsius versus centigrade , the point is not that they are “identical” (which is ambiguous for `very similar' and `the same thing'), but that they are the same thing: the scale formerly called centigrade was renamed in 1948 to honor Anders Celsius, the 18th-century Swedish astronomer who devised it.
Contact 's central premise is intriguing: A radio astronomer, played by Jodie Foster, receives a blizzard of binary mathematical data from a civilization in distant space.