La divulgación botánica para los hombres de campo a través de las revistas mexicanas, 1840-1855

Abstract

Between 1840 and 1855 in Mexico City six magazines for farmers were published to introduce them to botany as a useful science. The analysis of some of the articles that appeared in these magazines, from the perspective of the social history of science, points out the important role of informal education among the Mexican public as part of the modernization projects of the intellectual elite. The efforts to popularize a knowledge of botany in rural areas focused on providing the readers with scientific elements that would help them to improve agricultural yields and understand the importance of Mexican and foreign species as raw materials in demand on the international markets.

Keywords

• Botany
• press
• agriculture
• nineteenth century
• scientific popularization.