Interesting post! The suns analemma is fascinating to me.
If the earth is a globe as you propose, then the degrees for measuring the tropical astrology houses must all be wrong because a sextant requires a horizon to measure them.
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Thank you for the comment, @mypathtofire - I had to check what an analemma is.
I doubt that a sextant was used at all to place the twelve constellations onto a tropical astrology chart.
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I think you are right, the ancients had some more accurate tools. The 3 pyramids in Egypt apparently measure the high, low and mid-points on the Sun's analemma perfectly.
That's interesting. If that was so, I suppose we'll have to wait a few thousand years for the alignment to happen again due to axial precession... Hmm. How does axial precession affect the analemma...?
The alignment is each year with the equinoxes.