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Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585)
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pepys
on Oct 21, 2024
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NikkiA
on Oct 23, 2024
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I always assumed it was a word pun on the paper size of 'foolscap'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#Traditional_British...
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