Pardies, Ignace-Gaston (sold)
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (September 5, 1636 - April 21, 1673) was a French Jesuit scholar, mathematician, publisher, horologist, and astronomer active in the second half of the 17th century. Pardies was born in Pau and joined the Society of Jesus as a novitiate on November 17, 1652. In 1654, he entered the University of Toulouse, studying mathematics and natural philosophy. He was ordained in 1663 and took orders in 1665, after which he taught philosophy and mathematics at the Paris Collège de Clermont (Lycée Louis-le-Grand). He corresponded with the greatest polymaths of his generation, including Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680), Henry Oldenburg (1619 - 1677), Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695). His wide variety of works were by his contemporaries. His most significant work in terms of cartography is the celestial atlas, Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio, published posthumously in 1674. During Easter of 1673, he was ministering to the sick prisoners of Bicêtre Hospital, near Paris, from whom he contracted a fever and died a few days later.
Pardies' star atlas is stylistically one of the most attractive ever published.
Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio auctore R.P. Ignatio Gastone Pardies Societatis Jesu mathematico opus postumum.
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This is a stunning example of Ignace-Gaston Pardies' innovative 1693 celestial maps on 6-part gnomonic projection - here in fine, uncolored loose sheets with an exceptionally strong, crisp impression. Pardies' charts were both revolutionary and influential, emerging as eager scholars and private researchers, aided by ever more sophisticated telescopes, advanced knowledge of astronomy by leaps and bounds. (more details)