Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Associations of zodiac signs with lands, kingdoms, and cities were a common element of astrological forecasting. Since antiquity, these associations have assessed where the main effects of comets, eclipses, lunations, and planetary configurations would take place. Yet the discovery of new continents and territories in the early modern period challenged this system, since no associations existed for these new lands. This paper examines how astrologers faced this lacuna and the clash between traditional astrological knowledge and early modern geographical discoveries by exploring the propositions of astrologers working in the New World, their technical coherence, and their reception.
Source: Anuario de Estudios Americanos
Author: Luís Campos Ribeiro
Institution: University of Lisbon
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: Centro Interuniversitario de Historia das Ciencias e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), Centro Interuniversitario de Historia das Ciencias e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), G4315735544, G434337789, G4518857250, Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth, G8816927316
OpenAlex ID: W4409365280