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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | == [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Draper, John William}}'''. American scientist and author, b. at St. Helens, May 5, 1811; d. at Hastings, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1882. Educated at Univ, of London and Univ, of Pennsylvania where he attended the Medical School, 1835-36. Elected to medical professorship in New York Univ, where he also taught chemistry for many years. Greatly interested in photo-chemistry, he improved Daguerre’s process and was among the first to take portraits by light. Draper was responsible in great measure for the prominence of New York city as a center of medical education. Chief works: ''Treatise on Chemistry'' (1846).—''History of the Intellectual Development of Europe'' (1863).—*''History of the Conflict between Religion and Science'' (1874), a work greatly valued by H.P.B. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Draper, John William}}'''. American scientist and author, b. at St. Helens, May 5, 1811; d. at Hastings, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1882. Educated at Univ, of London and Univ, of Pennsylvania where he attended the Medical School, 1835-36. Elected to medical professorship in New York Univ, where he also taught chemistry for many years. Greatly interested in photo-chemistry, he improved Daguerre’s process and was among the first to take portraits by light. Draper was responsible in great measure for the prominence of New York city as a center of medical education. Chief works: ''Treatise on Chemistry'' (1846).—''History of the Intellectual Development of Europe'' (1863).—*''History of the Conflict between Religion and Science'' (1874), a work greatly valued by H.P.B. | ||
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|detail = vol. 3, p. 502 | |detail = vol. 3, p. 502 | ||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#502 | |link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#502 | ||
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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Draper, John William (1811-82)}}'''. *''History of the Conflict between Religion and Science''. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874. xxii, 373 pp.; 3rd ed., 1875; 5th ed., 1875, etc. | |||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 4, p. 645 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#645 | |||
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