Although the chronological framework of the work that we are going to review is outside what is conventionally called Contemporary History and, therefore, would not have a place in a blog dedicated to this period, the importance of the work in question makes its review necessary.We refer to the late
The seventeenth century gave us numerous personalities without whom we could not understand the world as we do today. In the field of the scientific revolution, one of the most relevant was the French Blaise Pascal , who made notable contributions in the field of mathematics, including the design an
The kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosphorus is a special case among the other Hellenistic kingdoms. Its history is intertwined with the Second Colonization, when Greeks from Miletus, as well as other cities, founded new cities on the shores of the Sea of Azov, then known as Lake Mayo and in the Crimea,
In 1700, after the death of Carlos II without descendants, the European powers dispute the Spanish throne. On the one hand, Philip of Anjou (House of the Bourbons) –with the support of France– and on the other, the Archduke Carlos (House of the Austrians or House of Habsburg, to which the dead king