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Hace 1 día · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
23 de may. de 2024 · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
Hace 1 día · Two Treatises of Government (published throughout the 18th century by London bookseller Andrew Millar by commission for Thomas Hollis) 1689/90. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; 1691. Some Considerations on the consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising of the Value of Money; 1693. Some Thoughts Concerning Education; 1695.
15 de may. de 2024 · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world, driving changes in energy use, socioeconomics, and culture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · Romanticism is the attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · York's trade was, in the 18th century, conducted by a greater variety of men than it had ever been before: a host of small merchants, dealers, mariners, brokers, factors, and shopkeepers had taken the place of the wealthy merchants who had earlier dominated the scene.
Hace 2 días · Laurence Sterne (1713-68) (fn. 47) lived in or near the city from 1738 when he entered on the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest (N.R.) until 1760 when, on the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy in York, he sprang suddenly into national, indeed international, fame and spent most of the remainder of his life away from the city.
