Quotes:Proctor, Richard Anthony

Zirkoff, Boris

Proctor, Richard Anthony. British Astronomer, b. at Chelsea, March 23, 1837; d. at New York, Sept. 12, 1888. Educ. at King’s College, London, and St. John’s College, Cambridge. At first studied law, but turned his attention to astronomy and authorship. Although financially a failure, his early works were favorably received by astronomers. In 1881, he founded a popular magazine entitled Knowledge and wrote for it. Became in 1886 a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Honorary Secretary thereof in 1872. An expert in map-drawing, he published two star atlases. Settled in America in 1881. His most ambitious work, Old and New Astronomy, was completed after his death by A. Cowper Ranyard and publ, in 1892. Among other works should be mentioned: Other Worlds than Ours (1870); The Poetry of Astronomy (1880); The Borderland of Science (London, 1873); and the little known Our Place among Infinities (London, 1875; New York, 1876), to which are added essays on astrology and the Jewish Sabbath, and from which H.P.B. quotes approvingly in Isis Unveiled.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 540

Proctor, Richard A. (1837-1888). *The Sun: Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the Planetary System. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1871.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 379