After the end of the Mexican empire, in the middle of 1867, various men of science who had been involved in imperial scientific activities had to reposition their activities politically under the republican government of Benito Juárez and disassociate themselves from the imperial past in order to achieve the scientific and professional goals they were pursuing.
Con el fin del Imperio mexicano, desde mediados de 1867, varios de los hombres de ciencia, involucrados en las actividades científicas imperiales, debieron reorientar políticamente sus actividades bajo el gobierno republicano de Benito Juárez y desentenderse del pasado imperial para alcanzar los fines científicos y profesionales que perseguían.