The artist, date and place of publication are all unknown...
but it resembles maps from ca. 1590. This is the earliest
known use of the world map in a visual joke: 'The panel of
the left says: 'Democritus laughed at it [i.e. the world],
Heraclitus wept over it, Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it'.
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