Quotes:Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

Boris de Zirkoff

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso. Italian physiologist and physicist, b. at Naples in 1608; d. in Rome, Dec. 31, 1679. Appointed professor of mathematics at Messina, 1649, and at Pisa, 1656. Returned to Messina, 1667, and retired to Rome in 1674, where he lived under the protection of Christina, Queen of Sweden. His best known work is De motu animalium (1680-81), in which he explains the movements of the animal body on mechanical principles. In a letter published under the pseudonym of Pier Maria Mutoli in 1665, he was the first to suggest the idea of a parabolic path for a comet; among his many astronomical works is his Theoria mediceorum planetarum ex causis physicis deducta (Florence, 1666), in which he considered the influence of attraction on the satellites of Jupiter.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 447