Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673) was a French Catholic priest and scientist. His
celestial atlas, entitled Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, comprised six charts of the night sky and was first published in 1674. The atlas uses a
gnomonic projection so that the plates make up a cube of the
celestial sphere. The constellation figures are drawn from Uranometria, but were carefully reworked and adapted to a broader view of the sky. This is the fourth plate from a 1693 edition of Pardies's atlas, featuring constellations including
Virgo,
Libra and
Boötes, visible in the
northern sky.Map credit:
Ignace-Gaston Pardies