Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
The ENLIGHTMENT: PURITAN AGE / AUGUSTAN AGE (CIVIL WAR 1642 (King Charles…
The ENLIGHTMENT: PURITAN AGE / AUGUSTAN AGE
CIVIL WAR 1642
King Charles I vs Puritans
Royalists/Cavaliers vs Roundheads and Cromwell
King's absolute power vs balance between King and Parliament
1649 Charles's execution and Commonwealth by Cromwell
RESTORATION 1660
King Charles II, Anglican : the most immoral court in History
James II (Charles's brother) : Catholic
danger of catholic succession -----> Bloodless or Glorious Revolution -----> William of Orange and Mary "joint monarchs"
Bill of Rights accepted by the monarchs (limited power)
NEW SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Galileo, Keplero and Newton
INDUCTIVE METHOD vs deductive method
importance of EXPERIENCE
from Particular to General (a priori -----> a posteriori)
THE PLAGUE 1665
. rats and fleas
. dutch merchant ships
. population decimated
GREAT FIRE 1666
S. Paul's Cathedral rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren
SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
. New architecture and styles (Royal hospital for Seamen, Capability Brown's gardens)
. Royal Society
. basis of Industrial Revolution
. Coffee Houses
. 1621/22 Pilgrim Fathers
.1642 Theatres closed by Puritans
