Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673) was a French Catholic priest and scientist. His
celestial atlas, entitled Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, comprising six charts of the sky, was first published in 1674. The atlas uses a
gnomonic projection so that the plates make up a cube of the
celestial sphere, and served as a model for
William Rutter Dawes's 1844 star charts. This is the first plate from a 1693 edition of Pardies's atlas, centred on the north
celestial pole and depicting part of the
northern sky.Map credit:
Ignace-Gaston Pardies
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673) was a French Catholic priest and scientist. His
celestial atlas, entitled Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, comprising six charts of the sky, was first published in 1674. The atlas uses a
gnomonic projection so that the plates make up a cube of the
celestial sphere, and served as a model for
William Rutter Dawes's 1844 star charts. This is the first plate from a 1693 edition of Pardies's atlas, centred on the north
celestial pole and depicting part of the
northern sky.Map credit:
Ignace-Gaston Pardies