Strauch, Aegidius. Astrognosia synoprice et methodice in usum academicum adornata. Wittenberg, 1659.
Aegidius Strauch was a Lutheran astronomer and professor at Wittenberg. His little Astrognosia was probably intended for classroom use. It contained 32 small engraved plates of the constellations, plus three other plates of the moon, planets, and solar system. The star maps are copied unabashedly from Bayer’s Uranometria, which one modification: Strauch occasionally combined two or three Bayer plates into one. For example, Bayer had placed Auriga, Perseus, and Triangulum on three separate plates; in Strauch’s volume we find them all on one tiny plate (see below).
In this first edition of his atlas, Strauch published the text in oblong form, so that the plates could be bound in without folding. In later editions (see the next item), he reverted to normal book format, and the plates had to be folded in.