Historia breve de México

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Carlos III (1716-1788) es el representante más destacado del Grand Tour, compendio de la alta cultura europea del Siglo de las Luces, según lo atestigua su viaje a Italia, en 1731, para hacerse cargo del ducado de Parma, ser proclamado en Florencia príncipe heredero de Toscana y hacer una entrada apoteósica en Roma después de fundar el reino de las Dos Sicilias, donde patrocinará las excavaciones de Herculano y Pompeya poniendo así las bases a la arqueología científica y al gusto neoclásico que imperará en la Europa de finales del siglo XVIII y buena parte del XIX. Al dejar Italia...

¿Por qué Europa se hizo dueña del mundo durante los cuatro siglos posteriores al Renacimiento? ¿Por qué no lo hizo el mundo oriental, muy superior en conocimientos científicos durante la Edad Media? Los relojes fueron instrumentos esenciales de la revolución tecnológica porque dotaron a los europeos de un nuevo sentido del tiempo y de un instrumento de gestión imprescindible.

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