Quotes:Paz Soldán, Mateo

Zirkoff, Boris

Paz Soldán, Mateo. Peruvian lawyer and mathematician, b. at Arequipa, Peru, 1814; d. before 1876. Educated in San Jeronimo Seminary, graduating in law. Worked for a short time at his legal profession, and devoted himself to acquiring vast knowledge of all sciences. Proficient in several languages. Wrote a number of remarkable treatises on astronomy and calculus used elsewhere as source material. His chief work, however, is Georgrafia del Perú (Paris: Fermin Didot, 1862-63), published posthumously with additional material by his brother Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán (1821-86).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 539