<Li> the sixth island, "where a horned bull dwells and attacks the newcomer" </Li> <Li> the seventh island lay in the east and is "where the morning dawns ." </Li> <P> Anaximander (died c. 546 BCE) is credited with having created one of the first maps of the world, which was circular in form and showed the known lands of the world grouped around the Aegean Sea at the center . This was all surrounded by the ocean . </P> <P> Hecataeus of Miletus (died c. 476 BCE) is credited with a work entitled Ges Periodos ("Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey'), in two books each organized in the manner of a periplus, a point - to - point coastal survey . One on Europe, is essentially a periplus of the Mediterranean, describing each region in turn, reaching as far north as Scythia . The other book, on Asia, is arranged similarly to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea of which a version of the 1st century CE survives . Hecataeus described the countries and inhabitants of the known world, the account of Egypt being particularly comprehensive; the descriptive matter was accompanied by a map, based upon Anaximander's map of the earth, which he corrected and enlarged . The work only survives in some 374 fragments, by far the majority being quoted in the geographical lexicon Ethnika compiled by Stephanus of Byzantium . </P>

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