Hartgill, George [XVI-XVII secolo]. Generall calend[ers] or, most easie astronomicall tables: in the which are contained [...] as well the names, natures, magnitudes, latitudes, longitudes, aspects, declinations, and right ascensions of all the notablest fixed starres, vniuersally seruing all countries; as also their mediation of heauen [...] Also their situation in the twelue houses of the coelestiall figure [...] very precisely the latitude of 51. degrees, 42. minutes of the Pole arcticke. To the which are annexed certaine perpetuall tables [...] for the exact placing of the planets (of what latitude so euer they be) in the sayd [...] celestiall houses for the paralell aforesayd. And also a calender or table of the cosmicall and acronicall rising and setting of all the sayd starres, agreeing to this our age and climate [...] by George Hartgyll minister of the word of God. London, Printed by Iohn VVindet, and are to be solde in Lothburie by Andrew Maunsell, 1594.
In folio, cc. [51]. Al frontespizio incisione in cui è riprodotto il Christianus Philosophus (l’Autore?) che regge la sfera con la mano destra e il libro Verum Dei con la sinistra.
Prima edizione in inglese.
Esemplari: Bodleian Library, Oxford; Christ Church College, Oxford; British Library; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München.
Bibliografia: Gardner 557; Graesse III 215.
Edizione originale, in latino: 1594, Londini, Excudebat Iohannes Windet, impensis Andreae Maunselli, in folio, cc. [3], pp. 94, cc. [1], con il titolo Calendaria: sive, Tabulae astronomicae vniuersales & resolutae: in quibus exacte continentur, tam nomina, natura, magnitudines, latitudines, longitudines, aspectus, declinationes, rectque stellarum omnium inerrantium maxime insignium ascensioones [sic] singulis sub coelo regionibus inferuientes. Situs quoque earum in 12. domibus coeli ad medium fere 8. climatis, videlicet, ad altitudinem poli arctici 51.gr.42.scr. Quibus annex sunt quaedam tabulae perpetuae (tam fructuosae, quam commodae) ad locandum planetas exacte in 12. praedictis domibus coelestis figurae, cuiuscunq[ue]; latitudinis fuerint, in eodem parallelo: Item, calendarium seu tabula ortus & occasus, tum cosmyci tum acronyci singularum praedictarum stellarum, huic nostro seculo & climati similiter conueniens. Georgio Hartgillo, verbi Dei ministro, authore”. Esemplare della Bodleian Library, Oxford (nonché della Salisbury Library e della Salisbury Cathedral).
Altra edizione, in inglese: 1636, London, printed for the Company of Stationers, in 4°, cc. [12], pp. 226, cc. [1], con ritratto inciso in legno di R. Gaywood. Esemplare della Henry Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. Bibliografia relativa: Graesse III 215.