Quotes:Barlow, Peter

Zirkoff, Boris

Barlow, Peter. English mathematician, physicist and optician, b. at Norwich in October, 1776. He died March 1, 1862. Attained by his own exertions considerable scientific knowledge and became professor in the Royal Military Academy. After several years of work on the Theory of Numbers and allied mathematical subjects, he undertook the first experimental investigations of the phenomena of induced magnetism, the results of which were embodied in his Essay on Magnetic Attractions (1820). He was equally successful in the field of Optics and greatly interested in steam locomotion. He was one of the leading minds in the science of the day, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 621