Quotes:Davy, Humphry

Zirkoff, Boris

Davy, Sir Humphry. English chemist, b. at Penzance, Cornwall, Dec. 17, 1778; d. at Geneva, May 29, 1829. A gifted student from early youth, he turned to chemistry in 1797, and became associated with the Medical Pneumatic Institution of Bristol investigating the medicinal properties of gases. Engaged, 1801, as lecturer in chemistry at the recently established Royal Institution in London, where his chief interest soon became electro-chemistry. He discovered potassium, sodium, chlorine and boron, and delivered a number of important lectures on his research. On his return from Italy, where he went with his wife and the young Michael Faraday as “assistant,” he became in 1820 President of the Royal Society. He contributed a great deal to the development of Agricultural Chemistry, and devised a miner’s safety lamp. Apart from his scientific pursuits, he was a poet of considerable accomplishment. His Elements of Chemical Philosophy was published in 1812.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 641