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Original map of Trasamundo, it has been redrawn from scratch and modified including territorial claims (Nagihuin)+Small correction in colouring of the Viceroyalty of Río de La Plata+Removed all names to simplify: Author: Anonymus 88: Permission (Reusing this file)
The Enlightenment emphasized scientific inquiry and approaches to the world, which could be in conflict with religious world views. The Spanish Inquisition had the power to censor books and suppress unorthodox thought, increasingly ideas of the Enlightenment circulated in Spain.
Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries Charting North America , maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.
The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the death of Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg monarch, who died childless in 1700. The War of the Spanish Succession was fought between proponents of a Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, and the Austrian Habsburg claimant, Archduke Charles.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "18th-century maps and globes" ... A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe ...
In 1776, Spain was a global empire, with territories spanning from Europe to the Americas and the Philippines. The influence of the Enlightenment was evident in the Spanish court, where ideas of rational governance, economic reform, and scientific progress were taking root under the guidance of Charles III and his enlightened ministers.
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [1] [2] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of rationalism and of empiricism, and political ideals ...
Map of Isla de San Carlos (Easter Island) compiled by the expedition of Felipe González Ahedo (1772). Museo Naval de Madrid. Throughout the Age of Enlightenment, the awareness of the poor state of science and technology in Spain arose out of the "negative introspection" of the arbitristas of the 17th and especially the 18th century. In the ...