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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • The CMB dipole – The warm side of the sky: a 3.4 millikelvin asymmetry caused entirely by our own motion, and used to calibrate the instruments that measure it.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus – Renaissance astronomer (1473–1543) who set the Earth in motion around the Sun – the geocentric and flat traditions' founding antagonist – and published as he died.
  • Heliocentrism – The Earth goes round the Sun: correct, and believed for very nearly three centuries before anyone could show it.
  • Johannes Kepler – German astronomer (1571–1630) who found the planets move in ellipses, after first building a lovelier, wrong model of nested Platonic solids; a founder of modern optics.
  • Stellar parallax – The annual shift demanded as proof of the Earth's motion in 1543, not found for 295 years, and there the whole time.

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