The Celestial Atlases
Pardies' Globe of the Heavens
The celestial globe flattened onto six great sheets.
- Chart
- Globi Coelestis in Tabulas Planas Redacti Descriptio
- Astronomer
- Ignace-Gaston Pardies
- Date
- 1693 edition of 1674
- Held by
- Published Paris · David Rumsey Map Collection via Wikimedia Commons
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The Jesuit mathematician Ignace-Gaston Pardies died young, and his star atlas appeared only after his death — but it became one of the most admired of its age. He solved an old problem with grace, cutting the round celestial globe into flat plates that fit together like the panels of a lantern, the constellations drawn with a restraint that lets the stars themselves lead. Elegant, precise, and rarely reproduced, it is the connoisseur's atlas: quieter than Cellarius, more exact than most, the work of a gifted geometer mapping the sky as cleanly as he could.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Pardies' Globe of the Heavens printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Paris · David Rumsey Map Collection via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
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