★ Holwell, John [1649-1686]. An Appendix to Holwel’s Catastrophe Mundi, Being An Astrological Discourse of the Rise, Growth, and Continuation of the Othoman Family. With the Nativities of the present French King, Emperors of Germany and Turky; All truly rectifyed, and astrologically handled: also, What Progress this present Emperor of Turky shall make upon Europe in this intended War with the House of Austria. Where unto is added a Supliment [sic] of the Judgment of Comets. By John Holwel Teacher of the Mathemacicks [sic] and Astrology. London, printed by F. G. for F. Smith, at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil, 1683.
In 4° (19.3 cm), A-F4, pp. viii 40. La p. 40 contiene advertisements delle opere di Holwell. La p. ii è bianca. Dedica “to all those that are truly Lovers of Astrology” datata in A3 verso From my House on the East-side of Spittle-Fields, over against Dorset-Street, next Door to a Glafiers. May 9th. 1683. Una seconda tiratura ha la parola “Mathemacicks” nel titolo scritta correttamente.
Rappresenta il seguito di Catastrophe mundi dello stesso Autore (vedi la scheda n. 3791) e tratta della nascita (nell’anno 844, in coincidenza con la congiunzione nel Leone di Saturno e Giove), crescita (attraverso il succedersi delle grandi congiunzioni) e futuro dell’Impero Ottomano. Secondo Holwell (p. 19) “Austria shall be much wasted, and the people thereof be brought very low, and a great part of them will be carried captive, and their great town of Vienna will go near to be lost […] Poland should be much vasted by both Turk and Tartar”. Destini non dissimili attenderebbero la Croazia (a causa della presenza di Marte nella Vergine), la Svezia, la Moravia (“shall have a great share of the Turk invasion, and a great many of thy Towns and Cities will be laid waste”), l’Ungheria, la Slavonia, la Boemia e le altre nazioni vicine. Neppure Francia e Spagna possono comunque attendersi un futuro sereno (“great Calamity”). Tuttavia, nel 1722 la congiunzione di Giove e Saturno nel Sagittario “will destroy all the Opinions of the Pagans all over the whole World, and reduce all to the Faith of our Saviour Jesus Christ […]”. Nelle pagine finali (da 36 a 39) Holwell tratta degli effetti del passaggio di 2 comete, avvenuti, tali passaggi, nel 1680 (sugli autori che trattarono degli effetti di essa, la famosa cometa di Kirch, vedi la scheda n. 109 e nel 1682: e dunque al supplemento all’opera descritta nella scheda n. 3791 si aggiunge il Remarkable observations on the comet, in the year 1680.
Esemplari (di entrambe le tirature): British Library (2); Bodleian Library, Oxford; Balliol College, Oxford (2); Jesus College, Oxford; Liverpool University; National Library of Scotland; Edinburgh University; Cambridge University (2); Durham University; Glasgow University; Bayerische Staatbsibliothek München; University of Wisconsin; Northwestern University, Illinois; Rutgers University, New Jersey; US Naval Observatory, Washington; Cornell University, New York; University of Iowa; University of Texas; University of Illinois; Harvard University; UCLA Library, Los Angeles; Henry Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington; Yale University; Yale University Medical Library; Union Theological Seminary, New York; University of Alberta, Cameron Library, Canada.
Bibliografia: Gardner 585; Houzeau-Lancaster 5320; Capp p. 177; Grassi p. 346; CATAF.