Quotes:Boscovich, Roger Joseph

Zirkoff, Boris

Boscovich, Roger Joseph. Italian mathematician and natural philosopher, b. at Ragusa, Dalmatia, May 18, 1711 (?); d. in 1787. When fifteen, entered the Society of Jesus, and studied at the Collegium Romanum, where he was appointed, 1740, professor of mathematics. Published a great many dissertations on problems of physics and astronomy, and a famous work, Theoria philosophiae naturalis, etc., Vienna, 1771, containing his atomic theory. In 1764 was called to the chair of mathematics at Univ, of Pavia. On the suppression of his Order in Italy, 1773, accepted an invitation from the King of France to Paris, where he was naturalized and became director of optics for the navy; returned, 1783, to Italy. He was one of the earliest of foreign savants to adopt Newton’s gravitational theory.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 635