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Bingo!  The only one paying attention.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alberto Duarte <albertodua@y...> wrote:
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> Not only of Latin America, but of all the Americas.
> 
> Alberto Duarte Prieto
> Santa Maria, California
> 
> --- "v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@y...>
> wrote:
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> > 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:
> >

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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:
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>
> 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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