Jose Antonio Alzate and the Gacetas de Literatura de Mexico (from 1788)

A scientific journal written almost single-handed by a creole priest in Mexico City from 1788, whose title page claims corresponding membership of the Paris Academy of Sciences and two Spanish bodies. It printed a test for alum adulterated into spirits, the origin of the Mexica argued from ruins on the Gila with their latitudes, a case against Linnaean nomenclature made on pharmacological grounds, and the Academy of Lyon asking whether America should have been discovered at all.