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The Enlightenment, Despotism and Parliamentarianism. - Coggle Diagram
The Enlightenment, Despotism and Parliamentarianism.
The scientific revolution and technological advances
The scientific revolution
There were scientific advances in science in the 17th century
Empericism
Rationalism
Technological and scientific advances in the 18th century.
James Watt's machine
Ironbridge
Scientific advances
Centigrade temperatute scale
Linnaean taxonomy
Mercury thermometer
The Anthropocentric culture in the modern age
Humanism was the first cultural movement to develop.
Thanks to to the importance of the humanism the invention of the movable-type printing press allowed the ideas to spread more quickly.
Characteristics of Enlightenment
Philosophical movement appeared in the 18th century
Democracy
Freedom
Social
Eliminate the social classes
Economic
Political
Constitutional monarchy -> Monarchs power is limitated
Republic -> Doesn't have monarchy
Happines
Equality
Reason+Logic
Education
Was thaught in Salons
Political philosophers
Voltaire
Against religious fanaticism
Wanted religious freedom
Enlightened despotism
Mantain the monarchy but give the people civil rights and judical reform (Constitutional/Parliamentary monarchy)
Rousseau
Democracy (no monarchy) -> Republic
Popular soverighty
Montesquieu
Republic -> Constitutional/Parliamentary monarchy
Separation of powers
Judicial (Make sure the laws are adhered to)
Executive (Power to rule)
Legislative (Make lawas)
The spread of Enlightenment ideas
Were spread by the Encyclopédia
Women in the Enlightenment
Marie-Thérèse Rodet
She set up Salons in which they share ideas with other Enlightenment thinkers.
Émilie du Châtelet
She was a mathematician, physicist and writer, she helped translating Newtons thoughts into French.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
She was a teacher, linguist and mathematician.
Mary Wollstonecraft
First women to become feminist. She also worked as translator
Parliamentarism and Enlightened Despotism
Absolutism and Parliamentarianism
Absolute monarchies
They had all type of power
Enlightened despotism
Spain: The Bourbon reforms and their limits.
The Enlightenment in Spain and Agricultural revolution of the 18th century.
New educational institutions
Academies
Were important institutions, supported by the king in orther to emphasize certain aspects of culture.
Sociedades Económicas de Amigos del País
The goals of these
societies
was to stimulate study and experimentation to improve agriculture and artisan industries.
Agricultural innovations
Continuous crop rotation
Introduce crops that
replenished the soi
l
Eliminated<-The
fallow
method
Products from the Americas were grown
Art in the 18th century: from Baroque to Neoclassical