When everyone blamed the demon Rāhu, Āryabhaṭa gave the correct geometric cause of eclipses.
Āryabhaṭa explains that the Moon is eclipsed by entering Earth's shadow and the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon — a purely geometric account, with methods to compute the shadow.
— Āryabhaṭa, Āryabhaṭīya, Golapāda (499 CE)
The modern (correct) cause of lunar and solar eclipses.
A genuine, defensible parallel.
This is a clean, defensible win. Where popular myth had the demon Rāhu swallowing the Sun or Moon, Āryabhaṭa described the actual shadow geometry and gave methods to calculate eclipses.
Tellingly, the later astronomer Brahmagupta criticised him for contradicting the Purāṇic Rāhu — which only makes Āryabhaṭa's scientific stance clearer. He followed the geometry, not the myth.