The Mercurio Volante (Mexico City, 1772): a weekly of physics and medicine written for the people who were not supposed to read it

A paper begun at Mexico City on 17 October 1772 by Josef Ignacio Bartolache, doctor of the Real Universidad, appearing every Wednesday because that is the day the posts of the kingdom left the capital. Its second number says it is written for those who are not sujetos de carrera and for the vulgo, and that women are a sex unjustly despised as useless for the sciences only because men have wanted it so. The same pages call the sciences successors to the ignorance of the Indians.