pyrocentric

Adjective

pyrocentric (comparative more pyrocentric, superlative most pyrocentric)

1. Of or relating to the Pythagorean astronomical system, which posited that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets orbit an invisible "Central Fire".
   • To Pythagoras himself has been frequently ascribed the idea of a pyrocentric Kosmos—with worlds revolving round a central sun—according to the Copernican, or, to speak more accurately, the Newtonian scheme.1874, Bernard H. Becker, Scientific London, page 302
   • Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.1967, Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater, pages 187–188
2. Centering fire as a key force in nature, civilization, etc.
   • The result of that sojourn was a book called The Ice, a meditation on the planet's southernmost continent which—from Pyne's admittedly pyrocentric viewpoint—is also one of the few nearly fireless places, oceans aside, on the face of the earth.1991, William Cronon, "Forward: Eucalypt History", in Stephen J. Pyne, Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (1998 ed.), page x
   • In contrast, the pyrocentric hypothesis holds that fire is a major consumer shaping the patterns, structure, and composition of vegetation.2019, William J. Bond, Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, page 100