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Fool's Cap Map of the World
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Fool's Cap Map of the World

Fool’s Cap Map of the World, “one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography”. (see source)

Date
1580–1590
Mapmaker / publisher
Epichtonius Cosmopolites (pseudonym)
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 3,056 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Fool's Cap Map of the World" (1580–1590). Epichtonius Cosmopolites (pseudonym), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fool%27s_Cap_Map_of_the_World.jpg

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