Regni Valentiae typus

Title

Regni Valentiae typus

Description

Map shows total Valencia with a sailing ship, sea monster, mileage indicator and title cartouche.

ca. 1630

Artist

Mercator (1512-1594)

Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594). He was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He is renowned to the present day as the cartographer who created a world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. In his own day he was the world's most famous geographer but in addition he had interests in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and magnetism as well as being an accomplished engraver, calligrapher and maker of globes and scientific instruments. He wrote few books but much of his knowledge is to be found in the copious legends on his wall maps and the prefaces that he composed for his atlas ,the first in which the term "atlas" appears and the sections within it.

Historical Description

The Valencian Community, also Valencian Land is an autonomous community of Spain located on the Mediterranean coast. It borders Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castile-La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and includes the three provinces of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón de la Plana. The capital of the autonomous community is the city of Valencia. The territory of the Autonomous Community, formed in 1982, is largely identical to that of the former Kingdom of Valencia, which belonged to the Crown of Aragon. Most of the region belongs to the linguistic area of Valencian, a variety of Catalan. Valencian is an official language alongside Spanish.