Citations:pyrocentrism

Noun: "(rare) the Pythagorean astronomical model"

 * 1987, Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World (trans. Robert M. Wallace; original published in 1975), page 128:
 * Even if, biographically, an encounter with the heliocentric proposal of an ancient predecessor — were it only an encounter with the Pythagoreans’ misleading pyrocentrism — had given the first impulse or the decisive impetus toward his new scheme of the world system (a hypothesis that, to be sure, no evidence supports), he would still have had to have the central concern, the inevitable problem: How could he, for his part, avoid his forerunners’ and predecessors’ manifest failure of encountering an audience that is not only uncomprehending but committed to incompatible assumptions?
 * 2020, Nick Allen, "JIES reviews", Journal of Indo-European Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3/4, Fall/Winter 2020, page 566:
 * Though apparently revolutionary at the time, and long ignored in favor of geocentric models, his [Philolaus'] pyrocentrism is here boldly presented as building on an ancient Indo-European conception.