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:
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
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> ps: didn't Spain open up a handful of Universities in these early times?
> I wonder what the graduates of these Universities were doing?
>
