planisphericadj.

1850 J. Wise Syst. Aeronaut. ii. ii. 155 Made Vincent Galileo recant his doctrine of the rotundity of the earth, in favor of the planispheric theory.

1856 W. H. Morley (title) Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed for Sháh Sultán Husain Safawí.

1884 Nature 12 June 161/1 Suggestions for a planispheric representation of the cerebral convolutions.

1935 Isis 23 295 The Arabs introduced..and perfected the planispheric astrolabe and used it in determining astronomical altitudes, calculating latitudes, time and the heights of mountains.

1974 Sci. Amer. Jan. 104/3 Before the end of the 13th century the planispheric astrolabe was known and used from India in the east to Islamic Spain in the west, and from the Tropics to northern Britain and Scandinavia.

1995 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 11 Aug. 24 Three categories once considered among the noblest achievements of Renaissance humanism are singled out for Mignolo's ‘semiotic’ attack: Latin-style alphabetic writing in books; cause-and-effect linear history; and Ptolemaic planispheric cartography.