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The largest continent, spanning from the Middle East through India and China to the Pacific, cradle of most of the world's major religions. Ptolemy's chorography splits it across two of his four quarters, the southeast and the northeast, giving it two triplicities rather than one.

Facts
Geography
Latitude
34.8 degrees north 1
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a large or historical region has no formal center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a precise boundary claim.
Longitude
100.6 degrees east 1
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a large or historical region has no formal center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a precise boundary claim.
Identity
Element
Earth for the southeast quarter, air for the northeast 2Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
Attributions
Tradition
Babylonian celestial omen work and mathematical astronomy underlie the technique, and the zodiac of twelve equal signs is a Babylonian construction Greek astronomy inherited. 3Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
Tradition
Ptolemy's chorography quarters the inhabited world by compass direction rather than mapping continents, which is why Asia falls across two quarters and two triplicities. 4Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
Correspondences
Zodiac Rulership
The air triplicity, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, for the northeast quarter, which Ptolemy calls Scythia 2Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
Zodiac Rulership
The earth triplicity, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn, for the southeast quarter: India, Persia, Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Assyria 2Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
Origins
Region
The inhabited world east of the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia to India and the lands beyond the Caspian 2Tradition: Hellenistic astrology
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Two Quarters, Two Triplicities

Ptolemy's second book divides the inhabited world into four quarters and puts each in familiarity with one of the four triplicities of signs. Asia is the only landmass in the scheme that falls across two of them.

The southeast quarter, which Ptolemy fills with India, Persia, Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Assyria, is in familiarity with the earth triplicity, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. The northeast quarter, which he calls Scythia and populates with the lands north and east of the Caspian, is in familiarity with the air triplicity, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. Ptolemy assigns planetary co-rulers to each quarter as well, and those assignments are not identical to the ordinary triplicity lords, so this entry does not name them rather than report one as the other.

Splitting Asia is not a failure of the scheme. The scheme is not a map of continents. It is a division of the oikoumene, the inhabited world as a second century Alexandrian understood it, by compass quarter from a centre near the Mediterranean, and continents are simply not what it divides. Reading it as geography produces the impression of an error where there is none.

What the quarter assignment is used for is mundane astrology, the reading of eclipses, comets and great conjunctions for their effect on regions. Ptolemy's chorography is the lookup table that tells such a reading which part of the world an event in a given sign concerns.

The Astrology Asia Sent Westward

Beyond the chorography, Asia's place in this atlas's astrological material is as the source of most of it.

The technical apparatus of horoscopic astrology is built on Mesopotamian celestial omen work and Mesopotamian mathematical astronomy, and the zodiac of twelve equal thirty degree signs is a Babylonian construction that Greek astronomy inherited rather than invented. The Hellenistic synthesis of the last centuries before the common era took that material, combined it with Egyptian and Greek elements, and produced the natal astrology this vocabulary belongs to.

The traffic then ran in several directions. Greek astrological texts were translated into Sanskrit and reworked into the Indian tradition, where the technique developed along its own line and is practised continuously to the present day. From the eighth century the Abbasid translation movement carried Greek, Persian and Sanskrit astrological material into Arabic, where it was systematised and extended before passing into Latin Europe from the twelfth century onward.

So the medieval European house catalogue this atlas records under so many entries is an Asian inheritance twice over, Babylonian in its zodiac and Arabic and Persian in the form Europe actually received. Lilly's Christian Astrology of 1647 sits at the end of that chain, and the chain is the reason a continent entry belongs in an astrological vocabulary at all. The atlas records the transmission as history, and states each attribution at the level the scholarship supports rather than more precisely.

Sources A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion with Christian AstrologyWilliam Lilly

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

This source names Asia directly: "Stuart-Fox is a historian of Southeast Asia, and this Cambridge University Press book is his standard general history of Laos, covering the country's political and religious history including the..."

Source A History of LaosMartin Stuart-Fox

This source names Asia directly: "It expanded across Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia within its first year and was reaching an estimated 160 countries by 2006."

This source names Asia directly: "spreading from Armenia through Asia Minor and the Levant during the forty-five-year reign of Artaxerxes II, 405 to 358 BCE."

Source Achaemenid Empire (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "incorporated into the Northern Asia-Pacific Division of the world church."

Source Who We Serve: Mongolians (Adventist Frontier Missions)Adventist Frontier Missions

This source names Asia directly: "works in around 30 countries across Asia and Africa, operating without regard to the faith, origin or gender of those it serves, and is the principal vehicle through which the Nizari Ismaili Imamat..."

Source Aga Khan Development Network (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Air, Elements

The air triplicity governs the northeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "reasoning across South and Central Asia and remains studied in traditional madrasa curricula today."

Source Al-Hidaya fi Sharh Bidayat al-MubtadiBurhan al-Din al-Marghinani

This source names Asia directly: "Golden is a historian of the Eurasian steppe, and this Otto Harrassowitz book is his standard academic survey of the ethnogenesis and history of the Turkic peoples, tracing their emergence and..."

Aquarius, Zodiac Signs

Aquarius, of the air triplicity, in familiarity with the northeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "Allen is an experienced popular historian of South Asia rather than an academic Ashoka specialist, so the book is best used for its well-documented narrative of the rediscovery process."

This source names Asia directly: "Asia Times' 18 October 2018 report (updated 18 February 2020) on Wirapol's sentencing, naming the Criminal Court in Bangkok and reporting that Wirapol rejected the charges against him, maintaining..."

Source Asia Times: 'Jet-Set Monk' Gets a Further 16 Years for Rape of MinorAsia Times staff and Dusita Maneemuang

This source names Asia directly: "Asian Studies is the interdisciplinary study of the societies, languages, history and cultures of Asia, given an academic home when William Jones founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784 to..."

Ayutthaya, Cities

This source names Asia directly: "temple architecture in Southeast Asia, with the remains of hundreds of temple complexes still standing across the city's island site at the confluence of three rivers."

Source The Buddhist World of Southeast AsiaDonald K. Swearer
Balkh, Cities

This source names Asia directly: "the oldest cities of Central and South Asia and was traditionally called Umm al-Bilad, the Mother of Cities, in Islamic-era Arabic sources for its antiquity and importance."

Source A History of ZoroastrianismMary Boyce
Bells and Man, Sources

This source names Asia directly: "Its breadth, covering bell traditions from Europe to East Asia in one volume, is both its strength and its limit, a genuinely useful single reference for the history of bells generally, but any..."

Source Bells and ManPercival Price

This source names Asia directly: "article on Buddhism in Central Asia, maintained through ordinary community editing rather than a fixed editorial board."

Source Buddhism in Central Asia (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "the event is anchored to Central Asia, the nearest real region, with the approximation stated here rather than rounded silently onto any one modern state."

Source Buddhism in Central Asia (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "forest monks of Theravada Southeast Asia to the Seon and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."

Capricorn, of the earth triplicity, in familiarity with the southeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "University Press in its Images of Asia series, an accessible academic paperback line aimed at general but serious readers rather than specialists, surveys the tong shu almanac tradition, its..."

Source Chinese AlmanacsRichard J. Smith

This source names Asia directly: "to religious disaffiliation in East Asia and a comparatively low birth rate."

This source names Asia directly: "of the global Hindu population in the Asia-Pacific region and about 95 percent of all Hindus living in India."

This source names Asia directly: "by further research across South Asia, which this citation alone does not cover."

Earth, Elements

The earth triplicity governs the southeast quarter of the inhabited world.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia, published by I."

This source names Asia directly: "Atwood is a historian of Mongolia and Inner Asia, and this Facts on File volume is a single author reference encyclopedia covering the Mongol Empire and the broader Turkic Mongolic steppe world from..."

Source Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol EmpireChristopher P. Atwood

This source names Asia directly: "Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, published by Harvard University Press in 2006, is a scholarly history arguing that the Russian imperial state, rather than simply suppressing Islam among..."

Gemini, Zodiac Signs

Gemini, of the air triplicity, in familiarity with the northeast quarter Ptolemy calls Scythia.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy
Girih, Sacred Geometry

This source names Asia directly: "wood and tile from Anatolia to Central Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "Among the Parsi community of South Asia, where the term survives today as ervad, a herbad is qualified to perform the lower, outer liturgical ceremonies but has not received the further ordination..."

This source names Asia directly: "hijra communities and custom in South Asia, consulted 2026-08-11."

Source Hijra (South Asia) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "than eighty languages across Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and the Pacific by the 2020s, each producing programming contextualized to its own local language and culture around wholistic..."

This source names Asia directly: "policy toward Islam in Central Asia and of the region's religious life since the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991."

This source names Asia directly: "Islamic institutions across Central Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "attested Islamic kingdom in Southeast Asia."

Source Sufism: A Global HistoryNile Green

This source names Asia directly: "mystical current across Central Asia, Africa and South Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "monograph from the Harvard University Asia Center, covers the Japanese monarchy's political, societal and cultural role since 1945 through recent events including Akihito's 2019 abdication, informed..."

This source names Asia directly: "conflict and refugee crises across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, operating without regard to the faith or nationality of those it serves."

Kshitigarbha, Figures

This source names Asia directly: "Known in Japan as Jizo, he is venerated in East Asia as protector of travelers, expectant mothers and, distinctively, of deceased children, whose souls are said to be gathered under his robe..."

Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Libra, Zodiac Signs

Libra, of the air triplicity, in familiarity with the northeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "religion, and this Harvard University Asia Center book is his scholarly study of the Kumano pilgrimage, examining how the mountainous Kumano region of Japan came to be understood as a physically..."

This source names Asia directly: "across South and Southeast Asia."

Source An Introduction to HinduismGavin Flood

This source names Asia directly: "nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, focused on smallholder agriculture, climate adaptation and emergency response, and is a member of the Corus International..."

Source Lutheran World Relief (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "across country programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, coordinated from Geneva, Switzerland, with emergency hubs in Yaounde, Cameroon and Kathmandu..."

Source For Hope and a Future: LWF World Service 2024 Annual ReportThe Lutheran World Federation, World Service

This source names Asia directly: "work across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and North Africa."

Source Malteser International (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Manichaean, Pantheons

This source names Asia directly: "from Roman North Africa to Central Asia and southern China, but the religion did not survive as a living tradition."

Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)

This source names Asia directly: "range from North Africa to Central Asia and China."

Source Manichaeism: An Ancient Faith RediscoveredNicholas Baker-Brian

This source names Asia directly: "Paula Richman is a scholar of South Asian religious literature, and this University of California Press volume is an edited academic collection she assembled, bringing together specialists to..."

This source names Asia directly: "Reliable for the 1990 organization of the Euro-Asia Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church: in the article's own words, "it was not until 1990 that the Adventists were able to receive the..."

Source Mikhail P. Kulakov (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "to the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, opened in 2006 to the design of the architect Jean Nouvel and renamed in 2016 for the French president who championed its creation."

Source Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (institutional record)Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chiracthe holders' own account

This source names Asia directly: "are drawn from Africa, the Near East, Asia, Oceania and the Americas."

Source Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (institutional record)Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chiracthe holders' own account

This source names Asia directly: "of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, it is the officially recognized body governing mosque registration, imam appointment and permitted sermon content in Uzbekistan, organized around..."

Source Muslim Board of Uzbekistan (institutional record)the holders' own account

This source names Asia directly: "first element discovered by a team in Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "Cyprus and the cities of south-central Asia Minor, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe, then across the Aegean into Greece, founding congregations at Philippi, Thessalonica and Corinth, with..."

This source names Asia directly: "growth in Latin America, Africa and Asia."

This source names Asia directly: "in Latin America, Africa and Asia rather than in the movement's own place of origin in the American South."

This source names Asia directly: "Maclean is a historian of modern South Asia, and this Oxford University Press book is her academic history of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage at Allahabad and its relationship to political power from 1765..."

This source names Asia directly: "religion, and this Harvard University Asia Center book is his academic study of the religious landscape of Mount Heng, known as Nanyue, the southern peak of China's Five Great Mountains system, and..."

This source names Asia directly: "Radio Veritas Asia is the continental Catholic broadcasting service the Southeast Asian Bishops' Conference resolved to build in December 1958 and formally launched on April 11, 1969, transmitting..."

This source names Asia directly: "Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West, edited by Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston, is an academic essay collection bringing together specialists in South Asian, Chinese and Western..."

Source Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and BodyGeoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston (eds.)

This source names Asia directly: "Laruelle is a scholar of Central Asian politics and religion, and this is her peer reviewed article in the academic journal Central Asian Survey, examining the modern revival of Tengrism, the..."

This source names Asia directly: "as practiced in the Greek cities of Asia Minor, published by Cambridge University Press and widely regarded as the field defining treatment of the topic."

This source names Asia directly: "founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."

This source names Asia directly: "reports across Siberia, Central Asia and beyond to argue for a universal structure underlying diverse local practices."

This source names Asia directly: "for Lunar New Year elsewhere in East Asia."

Source Shinto: A HistoryHelen Hardacre

This source names Asia directly: "largest Sikh populations outside South Asia."

Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "of martial arts of maritime Southeast Asia, consulted 2026-08-11."

Source Silat (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Sogdian, Languages

This source names Asia directly: "Samarkand and Bukhara in Central Asia, and the working lingua franca of the eastern Silk Road until the Arab conquest."

Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)

This source names Asia directly: "across Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia rather than by a lunar system."

Source Songkran in Thailand, Traditional Thai New Year FestivalUNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

This source names Asia directly: "tooth relic traditions across Buddhist Asia needs a scholarly source alongside this one, which speaks to the Kandy temple's present status rather than to that wider historical dispute."

Source Sri Dalada Maligawa: The Sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic (Central Cultural Fund)Central Cultural Fund, Sri Lankathe holders' own account

This source names Asia directly: "is a peer-reviewed journal article in Asia Major, published by the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, and its documented, checkable contribution is a study of the Shenxiang..."

Taurus, Zodiac Signs

Taurus, of the earth triplicity, in familiarity with the southeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "provinces in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania."

This source names Asia directly: "in Austronesian languages, and this Asia-Pacific Linguistics volume from the Australian National University is his standard scholarly reference on the Austronesian language family, covering its..."

Source The Austronesian LanguagesRobert Blust
The Betel Vine, Plants

This source names Asia directly: "vine native to South and Southeast Asia whose leaf, folded around areca nut and lime, is chewed widely across the region and offered ritually in Hindu and Buddhist practice."

Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)

This source names Asia directly: "belief and practice across Southeast Asia, covering both textual doctrine and the lived, everyday religious life of Theravada communities in the region."

Source The Buddhist World of Southeast AsiaDonald K. Swearer

This source names Asia directly: "Eade's The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia is a specialist technical study reconstructing the interlocking lunar, solar and era-based calendars used historically across Burma..."

This source names Asia directly: "and missionary expansion across Asia using the surviving historical and archaeological record of a tradition whose own history spans much of the Asian continent, a documented geographic reach many..."

This source names Asia directly: "personal written seal used across East Asia to mark a document as genuinely issued by the person named."

Source The Dai Honzon of 1274 (Gohonzon Shu catalogue, cross-referenced)Gohonzon Shu catalogue project contributors

This source names Asia directly: "by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program in 1978, is a scholarly study of the god-king cult central to Southeast Asian, principally Khmer, sacred kingship."

Source The Devaraja CultHermann Kulke

This source names Asia directly: "Delegates voted to organize the Euro-Asia Division at the General Conference World Congress held that year in Indianapolis, Indiana, and elected Mikhail P."

Source Mikhail P. Kulakov (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "South, Africa, Latin America and Asia together, held a clear majority of the world's Christian population, roughly sixty-one percent against Europe and North America's thirty-nine."

This source names Asia directly: "intermittently in the Aegean and Asia Minor for decades."

Source HistoriesHerodotus

This source names Asia directly: "around his worship across East Asia."

Source The Healing BuddhaRaoul Birnbaum

This source names Asia directly: "The Indianized States of Southeast Asia is a classic and still widely cited scholarly synthesis tracing how Indian religious, political and cultural models spread across and were adapted by early..."

Source The Indianized States of Southeast AsiaGeorge Coedes

This source names Asia directly: "the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, both as everyday formal dress and specifically as attire favored for Friday congregational prayer and other formal religious occasions."

Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)

This source names Asia directly: "collarless tunic worn across South Asia by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike, serving equally as ordinary daily dress and, in its plainer or more formal forms, as the garment worn to pray in a mosque..."

Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)

This source names Asia directly: "church into Latin America, Africa and Asia at a pace its earlier nineteenth century European missions had never matched."

Source The Oxford Handbook of MormonismTerryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow (eds.)

This source names Asia directly: "in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, a Duke University Press journal, 2005, is peer-reviewed academic scholarship."

This source names Asia directly: "it has spread through, from Central Asia to the Ottoman world and beyond."

This source names Asia directly: "of South, Southeast, East and Central Asia specifically so that a single reference could define terms consistently across regions that are more often treated separately, which is a genuine editorial..."

Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.

This source names Asia directly: "languages across East and Southeast Asia, with individual chapters contributed by specialists in particular branches and languages of the family."

Source The Sino-Tibetan LanguagesGraham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.)

This source names Asia directly: "explained, published by Radio Free Asia in 2024, is news journalism from an outlet that specializes in coverage of Tibet, China and other Asian regions where information is otherwise tightly..."

This source names Asia directly: "in the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program's studies series, is an academic study of the stupa, the Buddhist reliquary monument, examining its symbolic and cosmological meaning across Buddhist..."

Source The Symbolism of the StupaAdrian Snodgrass

This source names Asia directly: "2007 study from the Harvard University Asia Center, is a major scholarly social history of Daoist clergy in the imperial and early republican capital."

This source names Asia directly: "Africa than in South or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and order affiliation data of this kind..."

This source names Asia directly: "principally the Parsis of South Asia and later migrant communities in Britain and North America, documenting religious adaptation and community organization outside Iran rather than treating..."

This source names Asia directly: "prominent across mainland Southeast Asia, a Theravada reform movement drawing on Sri Lanka's own sangha reforms and on the older Theravada heritage preserved among the Mon of southern Myanmar took..."

This source names Asia directly: "ordination practice in Southeast Asia from ancient Benares through to modern Colombo, grounded in the historical and social record rather than doctrinal text alone."

This source names Asia directly: "The Central Asian campaigns of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur across the final decades of the fourteenth century broke it."

This source names Asia directly: "icons across South and Southeast Asia wherever Shaivism has spread."

Source An Introduction to HinduismGavin Flood

This source names Asia directly: "documenting children, mainly in Asia, who reported memories consistent with a previous life, cross-checked where possible against the details of a deceased person's actual life."

This source names Asia directly: "arrived in the countries of South East Asia and Hong Kong, of whom over 755,000 departed for resettlement in the West and over 81,000 returned safely to Vietnam, with roughly 24,700 still in camps..."

Uyghurs, Cultures

This source names Asia directly: "diaspora communities across Central Asia, Turkey and elsewhere, most Uyghurs today follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam."

Source Eurasian Crossroads: A History of XinjiangJames A. Millward
Vasubandhu, Figures

This source names Asia directly: "a standard reference across Buddhist Asia."

Source Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEdward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman (eds.)
Virgo, Zodiac Signs

Virgo, of the earth triplicity, in familiarity with the southeast quarter.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy

This source names Asia directly: "published by the Harvard University Asia Center in 2007."

This source names Asia directly: "was incorporated into the Northern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists on 9 January 1998."

Source Who We Serve: Mongolians (Adventist Frontier Missions)Adventist Frontier Missions

This source names Asia directly: "Heim's Theories of the Gift in South Asia, and dating the doctrine's attestation back through the Upanishads to the Rigveda; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than the monograph..."

Source Wikipedia, "Dana (Religion)"Wikipedia contributors

This source names Asia directly: "is widely cited in gender and South Asian studies for its close attention to how hijra identity is actually lived, negotiated and understood within its own community context rather than filtered..."

This source names Asia directly: "off in a Gothic raid into Roman Asia Minor generations earlier."

Source The Germanic LanguagesWayne Harbert

This source names Asia directly: "when it reached from Armenia through Asia Minor and into the Levant."

Source Achaemenid Empire (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

Contrasts With

Americas, Continents

Asia holds two of the four quarters of the classical chorography. The Americas hold none, because the hemisphere lay outside the inhabited world the scheme divides.

Source TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy
Global, Continents

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 2024View the Source
2. Tetrabiblos
Claudius Ptolemy, W. Foulsham, 1900Book II, on the familiarities of countries with the triplicities and starsView the Source
3. A History of Western Astrology
Nicholas Campion, Continuum, 2009View the Source
4. Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune
Chris Brennan, Amor Fati Publications, 2017View the Source
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