Re: [ranchos] Re: Mexican Scientists and Learned Individuals

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

Not only of Latin America, but of all the Americas.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- "v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>
wrote:

> Joseph,
> 
> The foundation of the Universidad de Mexico dates
> back to 1551 and it is the oldest University in
> Latin America.  Read the quote below:
> 
> En la "CEDULA REAL SOBRE LA FUNDACION DE LA
> UNIVERSIDAD DE MEXICO" se menciona  "Dada en la
> ciudad de Toro en 21 del mes de septiembre de 1551".
> Fue dictada por  el Rey y Emperador Carlos V.
> Menciona el Emperador en la Cedula: "he sido 
> suplicado fuesemos servidos de tener por bien que en
> la dicha ciudad de Mexico  se fundase un estudio e
> UNIVERSIDAD DE TODAS LAS CIENCIAS DONDE LOS
> NATURALES Y  LOS HIJOS DE ESPAÑOLES fuesen
> industriados en las cosas de nuestra Santa Fe 
> Catolica en las demas facultades Y LES CONCEDIESEMOS
> LOS PRIVILEGIOS Y  FRANQUEZAS Y LIBERTADES QUE ASI
> TIENE EL ESTUDIO E UNIVERSIDAD DE LA CIUDAD DE 
> SALAMANCA..." "Desde los primeros tiempos de su
> fundacion la Universidad Real y  Pontificia se rigio
> por las Constituciones de la Universidad de
> Salamanca,  modificadas en algunos aspectos por el
> Virrey y la Audiencia, para adaptarlas al  medio
> donde tenian que prestar sus servicios." Fuentes:
> "La educacion en Mexico.  Antes y despues de la
> conquista" Paula Alegria.
>  
> The first printing press was brought to Mexico in
> 1539, another first in Latin America.  
> 
>  There were always learned individuals but I suspect
> that there were very few in relation to the total
> population of the time.  I think that nowadays it is
> tempting to 
> subestimate or not give enough credit to the
> habilites and capacities of those that lived a few
> centuries before us.
> 
> Victor
> 
> 
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes
> <makas@n...> 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?
> >
> 
> 



		
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