SCIENCE ART AND SOCIETY IN THE 18TH CENTURY
SOCIETY
Social refroms
Laws
legal dishonour of labour eliminated
Protests
1- Esquilache riots protest
Social groups
Jesuits expelled
Control of marginalised groups
2-Wanted to prohibt long capes and wide hats
ART AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES
Science
Reason
influence of the Enlightenment
Scientific legacy of the 17th century
Advances
Medicine
Physics and geology
Vaccine for smallpox
Edward Jenner (1796)
Eating lemons prevented scurvy
(1747)
Measure of blood pressure in animals
Sthepan Hales (1733)
Establishment of geology as science
James Hutton (1788)
Invention of lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin (1750)
Improvement of mercury thermometer
Gabriel Farenheit (1714)
Invention of 100 degree temperature scale
Anders Celsius (1742)
Architecture
Rococo
Characteristics
Architecture
very decorated
Painting
Pastel colors
Sculpture
small
Mythological themes
1730-1760
Tastes of the nobility
Exuberant forms and decoration
