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Obregón, Calles, and de la Huerta revolted against Carranza in the Plan of Agua Prieta in 1920. Following the interim presidency of Adolfo de la Huerta, elections were held, and Obregón was elected for a four-year presidential term. His government accommodated many elements of Mexican society except the most conservative clergy and wealthy ...
He carried out his bachelor's and doctoral studies in Physics at the School of Sciences, UNAM from 1947 to 1952, at its original campus (Palacio de Minería).His theses were the following: Dynamical description of a potential dispersion (1953) [1] and Causal description and dispersion relations (1960) [2] [translated from spanish: Descripción dinámica de la dispersión por un potencial and ...
Unlike earlier Vasconcelos works such as La Raza Cósmica (where he praised both Hispanist and Indigenist elements which make up the Mexican culture), in Breve historia de México he stresses the importance of the Spanish part of Mexican culture, including cultural, moral, spiritual and traditional values which gave origin of Mexico. It is one ...
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics.
Though proposed in 1678, it was not published until 1690 in his Traité de la Lumière. His mathematical theory of light was initially rejected in favour of Newton's corpuscular theory of light, until Augustin-Jean Fresnel adopted Huygens' principle to give a complete explanation of the rectilinear propagation and diffraction effects of light ...
In addition, the U.S. received what is now known as the Mexican Cession, equivalent to the territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México. Including Texas, Mexico ceded an area of approximately 2,500,000 square kilometres (970,000 sq mi) – by its terms, around 55% of its former national territory. [6]
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
The viceroy's walk in the Canal de la Viga, by Pedro Villegas in 1706. Museo Soumaya. [35] [36] This is the oldest known representation of the Canal de la Viga and the chinampas. Since Mexico City was built on an island in the center of a large but shallow lake system, flooding became a serious issue during the colonial period.