Herodotus, who uses Hecataeus' research and describes his role in the Greco-Persian Wars, does not name Hecataeus when he ridicules an earlier map that probably is Hecataeus'. Herodotus (Bk IV) thinks it's wrong to show the land area as so circular with equal size continents.
"I laugh when I see that, though many before this have drawn maps of the Earth, yet no one has set the matter forth in an intelligent way; seeing that they draw Ocean flowing round the Earth, which is circular exactly as if drawn with compasses, and they make Asia equal in size to Europe."[See Herodotus' world map.]
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