Venus in the Country of the Rising Sun

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Through small felt skeletons with big heads in the form of calaveritas, it is told the trip to Japan of the Mexican Astronomic Commission, led by Francisco Díaz Covarrubias in 1874, in order to watch the passage of Venus through the solar disc.

Scientific heroes are not common in the pages of history, but one of them left his spirit impregnated in this emblematic building: Díaz Covarrubias, whom, upon his return from Asia, founded the first modern Mexican astronomic observatory in Castle of Chapultepec, a fact that would launch him to the top of Mexican science.

However, he achieved another feat, perhaps less spectacular, although more profound: he opened the way for the signature of the Friendship, Trade, and Navigation Treaty between Japan and Mexico.

The producers of this project were Víctor Manuel Hernández and Francisco Jesús Rivas.

Boletín de prensa
El inicio de relaciones México-Japón visto desde las vicisitudes de la ciencia, en lúdica exposición
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)

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