Thomas Hill (ca. 1528 – ca. 1574) was an English astrologer, writer and translatorGordon Goodwin (1891). "Hill, Thomas (fl.1590)". In Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London. p. 422. who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain.Bibliography of works on gardening, reprinted from the second edition of "A history of gardening in England" (1897), auth. Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs, London
Life Hill described himself as a Londoner, who had received a modest education, although this did include a knowledge of Latin and Italian. Works He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening — The 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. He went on to write other popular works, such as The Proffitable Arte of Gardening (1568) 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. In 1988, the Oxford University Press produced a paperback reprint of this book under the name Thomas Hill.The Gardener's Labyrinth, By (author) Thomas Hill, Volume editor Richard Mabey, Oxford University Press, 1988 Hill also published works on arithmetic, astrology, the interpretation of dreams and physiognomy.
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