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Nina, Saint (276-340). Called the “Enlightener” of Georgia in the Caucasus. She was the daughter of Zavulon, Army Chief of Emperor {{Page aside|538}}peror Maximian. Being a native of Cappadocia, she lived in Jeru saleni until the age of fourteen. She then went to Rome, escaped persecution from Maximian and returned to the East, first to Persia, then to Georgia (315), where she settled in Mtskhet, producing remarkable healings and attracting widespread attention through her preaching. As a result of her efforts, she converted the Emperor, the Queen, and most of the Court, an event which resulted finally in the conversion of the entire population to Christianity. Her work over a period of thirty-five years was peaceful, and she avoided forcing her ideas upon the people. She became the Patron-Saint of the Georgian land.
'''Nina, Saint (276-340)'''. Called the “Enlightener” of Georgia in the Caucasus. She was the daughter of Zavulon, Army Chief of Emperor {{Page aside|538}}peror Maximian. Being a native of Cappadocia, she lived in Jeru saleni until the age of fourteen. She then went to Rome, escaped persecution from Maximian and returned to the East, first to Persia, then to Georgia (315), where she settled in Mtskhet, producing remarkable healings and attracting widespread attention through her preaching. As a result of her efforts, she converted the Emperor, the Queen, and most of the Court, an event which resulted finally in the conversion of the entire population to Christianity. Her work over a period of thirty-five years was peaceful, and she avoided forcing her ideas upon the people. She became the Patron-Saint of the Georgian land.
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'''Nipher, Francis Eugene'''. American physicist, b. at Port Byron, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1847; d. Oct. 6, 1927. Instructor in Physics at State Univ, of Iowa, 1870-74. Prof, of physics, 1874-1914. Prof. Emeritus, 1914, at the Washington University, St. Louis. Showed that positive photographic picture could be produced in direct light, and made extensive study of electrical discharges. Author of: Electricity and Magnetism, Philadelphia, 1914. It is uncertain whether H.P.B.’s reference is to these Studies in some earlier edition. The title she refers to has not been traced.
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'''Olaus Magnus or Magni (1490-1558)''' (Magnus, i.e., Stora, great, being the family name and not a personal epithet). Swedish ecclesiastic and author. Followed his brother, Johannes Magnus, archbishop of Uppsala, to Rome, 1527. Most of his life was spent in the monastery of St. Brigitta in Rome, where he subsisted on a pension assigned him by the Pope. Author of the famous *His- toria de gentibus septenlrionalibus, Rome, 1555, a work which long remained the chief authority on Swedish matters. Engl. tr. by J. Streater as A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes and Vandals, and Other Northern Nations, London, 1653.
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'''Olcott, Col. Henry Steel (1832-1907)'''. *People from the Other World. Ill. by Alfred Kappes and T. W. Williams. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., March, 1875.-—*Old Diary Leaves. First Series. London & New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1895. Second ed. publ. by The Theos. Publ. House, Adyar, Madras, 1941.-— *Diaries. Original volumes of Col. Olcott’s daily entries now in the Adyar Archives.
 
Consult Vol. I (Appendix) of the present Series for a comprehensive biographical sketch of Col. Olcott’s life.
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'''Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d’'''. French palaeontologist, b. Sept. 6, 1802, at Couërzon (Loire Inférieure); d. at Pierresitte, June 30. {{Page aside|539}}1857. Educated at La Rochelle and appointed travelling naturalist for Museum of Natural History at Paris. Went to South America. 1826, to gather information on natural history and ethnology, embodying the results in his Voyage dans ΓAmérique Méridionale (1839-42). in 1840 began publishing a monumental work: Paléontologie Française, ou description des fossils de la France, in eight volumes, dealing with Jurassic and Cretaceous invertebrata. Appointed, 1853, professor of palaeontology at Museum of Nat. Hist, at Paris.
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'''Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)'''. *The Age of Reason, 1794-95.
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'''Patanjali'''. *Yogasutras or Pâtanjala (sometimes spoken of as Yoga- Vidyâ). Text and transi, by Ballantyne and Govind Sâstrî Deva. Ed. by Tookaram Tatya. Bombay: Theos. Society, 1882; 2nd rev. ed. for the Bombay Theos. Publ. Fund. Bombay, 1885.—Transi, by James H. Woods. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard Univ., 1914.—The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. An interpretation by Wm. Q. Judge, ass. by James H. Connelly. New York: The Path, 1889 (transi, and comm.); many subs, editions.—Transl. with Notes by Manilal N. Dvivedi. Bombay: Bombay Theos. Publ. Fund, 1890.
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'''Paul, Dr. N. C. (in India as Navînachandra Pâla)'''. *A Treatise on the Yoga Philosophy, 2nd ed. Calcutta: “Indian Echo” Press, 1883, ii, 52 pp. 8vo.; 3rd ed. by T. Tatya. Bombay, 1888. Very scarce.
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'''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 Georgrajia del Perú (Paris: Fermin Didot, 1862-63), published posthumously with additional material by his brother Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán (1821-86).
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'''Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) (ca. a.d. 23-79)'''. *Historian naturalis (Natural History) in 37 Books. Loeb Classical Library.
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'''Powell, John Wesley'''. American geologist and ethnologist, b. March 24, 1834, at Mt. Morris, N.Y.; d. in Haven, Me., Sept. 23, 1902. Educ. at Illinois and Oberlin Colleges. Lost right arm in Civil War, during which he became major. Especially interested in geology {{Page aside|540}}and appointed, 1865, prof, of geology and curator of the museum in Illinois Wesleyan Univ, of Bloomington, and later at the Normal Univ. Began in 1867 a series of expeditions to the Rocky Mts. and the canyons of Green and Colorado Rivers, incl. a daring three months’ journey through the Grand Canyon, 1869. Founded and directed (1879) a bureau of ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, and contributed comprehensive studies of the Indians and their languages. His work led to a U. S. Government geographical and geological survey of the Rockies (1870-79). In the period of 1881-94, Powell was director of the geological survey. Author of a number of works dealing with American geology.
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'''Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859)'''. *History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843.
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'''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.
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'''Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean-Louis Armand de (1810-92)'''. *L’Espèce humaine. Paris: G. Baillière & Co., 1877; Engl. tr. as The Human Species. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1879, 1881, 1884.—*Souvenirs d’un naturaliste. Paris, 1854. 2 vols. Vide Vol. VIII, pp. 472-73-of present Series for biography.
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'''Raghunâthji, Krishnanâth'''. *“The Pâthâri Prabhus,” in the Government Bombay Gazetteer, 1879.
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'''Râmàyana (attributed to Vâlmîki)'''. Ed. by T. R. Krishnâcharya and {{Page aside|541}}T. R. Vyäsächärya. Bombay: Nirnaya-sägara Press, 1911-13. Transl. by Ralph T. H. Griffith. London: Trübner & Co., 1870-74. 5 vols.
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