1650
– 1700
|
Political
& Diplomatic |
Intellectual
& Cultural |
Social
& Economic |
|
Louis
XIV 1661-1715 |
Isaac
Newton-Principia |
Edict
of Nantes Repealed |
|
English
Restoration |
Bossuet |
Colbert |
|
Charles
II |
Royal
Society of Science Eng – 1662, Fr in 1666 |
Versailles |
|
Test
Act 1673 |
Second
Treatise on Gov. |
Dutch
ÒflyboatsÓ |
|
French-Dutch
Wars |
Hobbes |
Act of
Toleration 1689 |
|
Peter
the Great 1682-1725 |
Scientific
Revolution begins |
Puritan
social Laws |
|
War of
League of Augburg |
Divine
Right Theory |
Table
of Ranks |
|
Glorious
Revolution |
Baroque
Style |
Maria
Winkelmann-Comet |
|
William
& Mary |
Fr.NeoClassic—Racine, Moliere,
Corneille |
Maria
Merian-Insects |
|
Frederick
I Prussia |
|
Madame
Sevigne-Social Letters |
|
English
Bill of Rights |
|
|
|
Robert
Walpole |
|
|
|
Mazarin |
|
|
Studies in anatomy ÒprovedÓ women had smaller skulls
thus less intelligence and were therefore ÒsuitedÓ for domestic work. Males were ÒprovenÓ to give the Òlife
forceÓ in conception, thus women were only the vehicle. The new age of science opened many opportunities for women particularly
in the protestant nations. German
universities allowed much greater freedom to women who by now had nearly a
century of educational tradition.