"A Bibliography of Tracts and Treatises on the Comet of 1577." Reprinted from: ISIS, No. 63 (Vol. XXII, 1), December 1934.

Bruges:: Saint Catherine Press, 1934., 1934. 8vo. (41)-68 pp. Plates. Printed wrappers. Very good. An excellent highly specialized bibliography. Clarisse Doris Hellman Pepper was an American historian of science, "one of the first professional historians of science in the United States" [The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women]. Her father was the noted bibliophile Alfred Myer Hellman, whose obstetrical books was once commemorated by a catalogue. Doris. who studied under George Sarton, specialized in 16th and 17th century astronomy, wrote a book on the Great Comet of 1577, and was the translator of another book, a biography of Johannes Kepler. She became a professor at the Pratt Institute and later at the Queens College, City University of New York, and was recognized by membership in several selective academic societies. (Inventory #: ZZ1328)