Home›Open Questions›Does any authority extend the classical astrological chorography to the Americas, and on what reasoning?Open QuestionsDoes any authority extend the classical astrological chorography to the Americas, and on what reasoning?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Does any authority extend the classical astrological chorography to the Americas, and on what reasoning?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/does-any-authority-extend-the-classical-astrological-chorography-to-the-americas-and-on-what-reasoning.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Does any authority extend the classical astrological chorography to the Americas, and on what reasoning?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/does-any-authority-extend-the-classical-astrological-chorography-to-the-americas-and-on-what-reasoningCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-does-any-authority-extend-the-classical, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Does any authority extend the classical astrological chorography to the Americas, and on what reasoning?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/does-any-authority-extend-the-classical-astrological-chorography-to-the-americas-and-on-what-reasoning}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionPtolemy's four quarters divide only the oikoumene, the inhabited world known in the second century, and the western hemisphere lies wholly outside it. No quarter, triplicity or planetary co-ruler was ever assigned to the Americas by the tradition that built the scheme, and nothing proposed since has acquired comparable standing. This is not a lost passage or a disputed reading; it is an absence created by the geographic horizon of the source.What would resolve this A survey of the mundane astrological literature from the sixteenth century onward, when the Americas entered European awareness, establishing whether any author extended the chorography to the new hemisphere, on what reasoning, and whether the extension was taken up by anyone else. A negative result would settle the entry as firmly as a positive one, and either way the entry ceases to be an open absence.OpenHistory of astrology; early modern intellectual history; history of geographic knowledgeNicholas Campion, A History of Western AstrologyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnAmericas, Continents Well-attested Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campiontier 1SourcesA History of Western Astrologytier 1Nicholas Campion, Continuum, 2009View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year