C. Doris Hellman
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American historian of science
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C. Doris Hellman's Degrees
- PhD History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Clarisse Doris Hellman Pepper was an American historian of science, "one of the first professional historians of science in the United States". She 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.
C. Doris Hellman's Published Works
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- Book Reviews: The Comet of 1577: Its Place in the History of Astronomy (1944) (42)
- The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.Thomas S. Kuhn (1957) (15)
- Maurolyco's "Lost" Essay on the New Star of 1572 (1960) (10)
- Jefferson's Efforts towards the Decimalization of United States Weights and Measures (1931) (10)
- The Controversy on the Comets of 1618. Galileo Galilei , Horatio Grassi , Mario Guiducci , Johann Kepler , Stillman Drake , C. D. O'Malley (1962) (8)
- John Bird (1709-1776) Mathematical Instrument-Maker in the Strand (1932) (6)
- George Sarton, historian of science and new humanist. (1958) (4)
- The rôle of measurement in the downfall of a system: Some examples from sixteenth century comet and nova observations (1967) (3)
- Legendre and the French Reform of Weights and Measures (1936) (3)
- Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Edward Rosen. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1965. xix + 164 pp. $9 (1965) (3)
- Was Tycho Brahe as Influential as he Thought? (1963) (3)
- Additional Tracts on the Comet of 1577 (1948) (2)
- Science in the Renaissance: A Survey (1955) (2)
- Agricola on Metals. The Age of Technology Waited for Better and More Abundant Metals; It Arrived So Much Sooner because Agricola Published De Re Metallica, a Mining and Metallurgical Classic. Bern Dibner (1959) (2)
- A Bibliography of Tracts and Treatises on the Comet of 1577 (1934) (2)
- Book Reviews: The Stars above Us. Or the Conquest of Superstition (1958) (1)
- Matthaeus Zeisius, Author of a Tract on the Comet of 1577 (1954) (1)
- Book Review:Watchers of the Skies. An Informal History of Astronomy from Babylon to the Space Age Willy Ley (1964) (1)
- Book Review:The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe John Allyne Gade (1948) (1)
- Book Review:Tamburlaine's Malady and Other Essays on Astrology in Elizabethan Drama Johnstone Parr (1954) (1)
- Surveyor 0 (1967) (1)
- Book Review: La révolution astronomique: Copernic, Kepler, Borelli (1964) (1)
- Sources of Science Series: Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger . Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Edward Rosen. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1965. xix + 164 pp. $9. (1965) (0)
- 41. History of Astronomy (1970) (0)
- 5.5. Kepler and Tycho Brahe (1975) (0)
- Halley's Activities: Edmond Halley . Angus Armitage. Nelson, London, 1966. xii + 220 pp., illus. 42 s. (1968) (0)
- Book Review:O cometa do ano de 1577 Francisco Sanches (1952) (0)
- Book Review:The History of Astronomy Giorgio Abetti, Betty Burr Abetti (1953) (0)
- Book Review:An Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of Kepler Robert Small (1964) (0)
- Kepler with Coffee (1972) (0)
- Edmond Halley. Angus Armitage. Nelson, London, 1966. xii + 220 pp., illus. 42 s (1968) (0)
- Kepler and Tycho Brahe. (1975) (0)
- Johannes Kepler. Max Caspar (1950) (0)
- The Stars above Us . Or the conquest of superstition. Ernst Zinner. Translated by W. H. Johnston. Scribner's, New York, 1957. xiv+ 141 pp. Illus. $3. (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Comets. Their Nature, Origin, and Place in the Science of Astronomy Mary Proctor, A. C. D. Crommelin (1938) (0)
- History as Science (1960) (0)
- The Note-Book of Edward Jenner (1931) (0)
- Essay Review: C. Doris Hellman (1910–1973) (1973) (0)
- [Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab]: Tycho Brahe's Description of His Instruments and Scientific Work as Given in "Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica". Hans Raeder , Elis Stromgren , Bengt Stromgren (1950) (0)
- 13.1. Kepler and comets (1975) (0)
- Concordia Mundi: The Career and Thought of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581). William J. Bouwsma (1958) (0)
- History and Philosophy of Science (Section L). (1958) (0)
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