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 fifth plate from a 1693 edition of Pardies's atlas, featuring constellations including
Lyra,
Cygnus,
Hercules,
Ophiuchus,
Sagittarius and
Scorpius,
Aquila,
Delphinus, and
Corona Australis, as well as
Antinous, an
obsolete constellation. All of these are visible in the
Northern Hemisphere, though a few cross the boundary from the
northern sky into the
southern sky.
Map credit: Ignace-Gaston Pardies