I am Father Tomás Vicente Tosca and Mascó, a priest of the Congregation of the Oratory of San Felipe Neri and Vice-Rector at the University of Valencia.

I was born in Valencia 68 years ago. My father was a professor of medicine and he always made sure that I had a thorough education. In my youth, I was ordained a priest and entered the Congregation of San Felipe Neri. Before the War of Succession, I attended, along with Corachán, Olmo and others, social gatherings and academies in which we exchanged experiments and attempted to spread new scientific ideas by Newton and Descartes. In order to spread this knowledge, I prepared two briefs: one about philosophical content that included physics , biology, medicine, astronomy, optics and other sciences, and other about mathematics, but it seems they have not taken well in our society. I am proud to have constructed a new map of Valencia, one which offers a better representation than the previous version by Mancelli in 1608. It was my obsession to the point that I was nicknamed the chaplain of Ratlledes because I went about the city taking and recording measurements. Now I work as the Vice-Rector at the Estudi General , however, I am not a professor. At the moment, there are talks of leaving Latin grammar education exclusively to the Society of Jesus, of returning the patronage the township originally had over the University and of contracting new professors, as the vacancies caused by the war have not yet been filled. So much so that Gregorio Mayans, one of most promising young intellectuals, is thinking of relocating from Salamanca.