A Night in a Balloon. An Astronomer's Trip from Paris to the Sea in Observation of Leonids

by Dorothea Klumpke

$575 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New York: 1900. First edition. Extracted from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Volume LX, Number 2 , pages 276-284. Disbound but complete; dampstaining to lower third of all pages. This first-hand account of aeronautical astronomical study by a key female scientist is scarce. Dorothea Klumpke was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy -- a feat she accomplished in 1893 at the University of Paris, with a

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