Quotes:Cooke, Josiah Parsons

Zirkoff, Boris

Cooke, Josiah Parsons (1827-94). *The New Chemistry, 1872; 2nd. ed., London, 1874. See Vol. IX, p. 240, for biogr. sketch.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 450

Cooke, Josiah Parsons (1827-94). *The New Chemistry, 1872; 2nd ed., London, 1874. See Vol. IX, p. 240, for biogr. sketch.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 640

Cooke, Josiah Parsons (1827-1894). American chemist, b. at Boston. Mass.; grad. of Harvard, 1848; appointed to the chair of chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard; stimulated the study of chemistry at collegiate institutions, urging laboratory instruction. Largely responsible for the achievements of his pupil, Theodore Wm. Richards, in his remarkable studies of atomic weights. Works: Elements of Chemical Physics, 1860; 4th ed., 1886.—First Principles of Chemical Philosophy, 1868 and 1882.—*The New Chemistry, 1872 and 1884.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 410