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Adjective: Copernican  kow'purnikun
  1. According to Copernicus
    "in the Copernican system the earth and other planets revolve around the sun"
     
  2. Of radical or major importance
    "a Copernican revolution in modern art"

See also: heliocentric, important, of import

Encyclopedia: Copernican