Re: [ranchos] Mexican Scientists and Learned Individuals

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

This link has a broad coverage of history in early colonial Mexico.

 

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history.html#colonial

 

Alicia

Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

> So during the colonial times were there any learned indivduals in 
> Mexico? Scientists? Inventors? Musicians? Doctors? Architects? Poets? etc?
>
> I guess I'm looking for that time period from the Conquest to the 
> 1800's. I realize that the closer you get to current times you will have 
> a much larger selection of examples of the above, but I'm wondering what 
> was going on during the 400 years between 1500-1899?
>
> just curious,
>
> joseph
>
> ps: didn't Spain open up a handful of Universities in these early times? 
> I
>  wonder what the graduates of these Universities were doing?