planisphere

A second map, created in 1502 and called the Cantino Planisphere, depicts the peninsula of Florida with a remarkably accurate rendering of its inlets and bays.

In the poem “In a Wonderful Place,” published in the 2009 collection “Planisphere,” he offered a brief, bittersweet look back.

In summer I sometimes come outside at night with my torch and my planisphere, which is two circles of plastic with a pin through the middle.

If it’s prominent enough throughout, the reader will go along with whatever unlikely image he might throw in—the sight of a woman reclining on the bristles of a toothbrush, for example, or a nation born on a man’s palm with a whole “saffron planisphere and aged rum.”

Camelopardalis.—This constellation first appears on a celestial planisphere published by Bartschius in the year 1624.