Mexican Scientists and Learned Individuals

This link has a broad coverage of history in early colonial Mexico.
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history.html#colonial
Alicia

Joseph Puentes 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?