other paradigms

other paradigms giordano bruno catholic inquisition

This picture, a xylography done by an unknown artist in 1600 A.C., well represents the idea of the search, analysis, acceptance of new concepts. The man in it can be thought as Giordano Bruno, which, after seven years of prison and torture, was murdered by the Inquisition just because he supported the idea of an infinite universe, possibly plenty of life, even outside Earth.
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Our intention is to expose and discuss ideas with freedom, regardless any cultural constraints.

Figure: author unknown

paradigm

. meaning of paradigm epistemology scientific revolution antikythera mechanism

According to The Language of Philosophy – Dictionary and Research Guide, "since the late 1960s, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. Initially the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable".
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The enlargement of the meaning of paradigm came after Thomas Kuhn, which published in 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, discussing the sort of ideas that was acceptable in different historic eras that lead to cultural revolutions.
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To illustrate a paradigm I brought the Antikythera mechanism, constructed in an era in wich we do not believed one had the hability to do so.
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To know more acesss the link 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
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Figure: The Antikythera Mechanism
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