Philip's repression also had an impact on the Catalan universities, which were closed, a new one being founded in Cervera in 1717. The cultural and scientific acceleration in the second half of the eighteenth century, linked to the Enlightenment, developed in the academies and private institutions such as the Board of Trade, the Academy of Letters in Barcelona, the Academy of Natural Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Medicine. Important modernisation was also carried out by the Military Academy of Mathematics and the College of Surgeons. Awards for work of a technical and practical nature were given by all these institutions, which also went to great lengths to introduce the latest scientific developments. The eighteenth century also marked the move away from the Baroque movement to the Academic Baroque and Neoclassicism.
