An Illustrated New Spain version of meteorological phenomena in the eighteenth century through the Gazeta de México

Abstract

This historical research analyzed the way in which the Gazeta de México, as a bastion of the Enlightenment in New Spain, print news about meteorological phenomena, from the second half of the 16th century, and, mainly, during the first third of the 18th century, when that periodical publication was printed. Briefly, certain aspects of the Novohispanic Enlightenment -represented by the criollos-, were related to some meteorological events, which are reported and described. Finally, we reflect from the present about the historical events discussed.