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

See also: heliocentric, important, of import

Encyclopedia: Copernican