THE INFLUENCE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE ACTIVATION OF SCIENTIFIC COSTS IN THE EUROPEAN TERRITORY IN XVII – XVIII СТ.

Abstract

The article deals with the influence of the Catholic Church on the activation of the activities of the scientific secret societies of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This topic is rather controversial and insufficiently disclosed in the historiography of secret societies. When disclosing the tasks, special attention is paid to the factors that influenced the activities of scientific secret societies and means used by the Catholic Church to confront secret societies. In addition, for the completeness of the historical period in the article, features of socio-political relations in the European society of the XVIIXVIII centuries were disclosed. Such an approach allows us to maximally consider the question posed.