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Thomas Hill (author)

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Thomas Hill (ca. 1528 - ca. 1574)[1] was an English astrologer, writer and translator[2] who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain.[3]

Life

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Hill described himself as a Londoner, who had received a modest education, although this did include a knowledge of Latin and Italian.[4]

Works

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He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardeningThe profitable arte of gardening — which was first published in 1563 under the title A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden.[3][5] He went on to write other popular works, such as The Proffitable Arte of Gardening (1568)[4] and The Gardener's Labyrinth (1577). The latter work was originally published after Hill's death under the name of Didymus Mountain, now generally attributed to Thomas Hill.[6] In 1988, the Oxford University Press produced a paperback reprint of this book under the name Thomas Hill.[7] Hill also published works on arithmetic, astrology, the interpretation of dreams and physiognomy.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Johnson, Francis R. (1944). "Thomas Hill: An Elizabethan Huxley". Huntington Library Quarterly. 7: 332, 338. doi:10.2307/3815736. JSTOR 3815736.
  2. ^ Gordon Goodwin (1891). "Hill, Thomas (fl.1590)". In Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London. p. 422.
  3. ^ a b Bibliography of works on gardening, reprinted from the second edition of "A history of gardening in England" (1897), auth. Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs, London
  4. ^ a b Willes, Margaret (2011). The Making of the English Gardener. Yale University Press. p. 56.
  5. ^ Julie Coleman (May 2001), The Gardener's Labyrinth, University of Glasgow
  6. ^ Johnson 1944, p. 339.
  7. ^ The Gardener's Labyrinth, By (author) Thomas Hill, Volume editor Richard Mabey, Oxford University Press, 1988
  8. ^ Hyll, Thomas (1571) (9 July 1571). The contemplation of mankinde.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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