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Boris de Zirkoff
Babinet, Jacques. French physicist, b. at Lusignan, March 5, 1794; d. Oct. 21, 1872. Studied at École Polytechnique in Metz. After a short time in an artillery regiment, became professor of physics at Lycée Saint-Louis, then at Collège de France. Entered the Académie des Sciences in 1840. Works: Résumé complet de physique, etc., Paris, 1825.—Sur la mesure des forces chimiques, etc. He was a talented journalist and an imaginative writer.
Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 447