The Great Comet of 1843
Bibliography by Gary Shearer
Adventist Studies Librarian
Pacific Union College Library

02-22-05

Books | Periodicals | Web URLs | Videos

Books

 

Brown, Peter Lancaster. Comets, Meteorites and Men. New York: Taplinger, 1973. Drawing of comet of 1843 over Paris, Plate 13, between pp.106 and 107. Comet briefly discussed, pp.83 and 90.
QB721 .L36 1974

Burnham, Robert. Great Comets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. "Great March Comet of 1843", pp. 62, 63, 65, 168, 183.
QB721 .B79 2000

Devens, R. M. Our First Century. Springfield, MA: C. A. Nichols and Co.; Chicago: Hugh Heron, 1877. Chapter 48, "Sudden Appearance of a Great and Fiery Comet in the Skies at Noonday - 1843," pp.424-430.
Her. Coll. E179 .D48

Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens: A Popular Authoritative Astronomy, Volume 1. Edited by T. E. R. Phillips and W. H. S. Steavenson. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1923. Sketch of the great comet of 1843 on 17 March, Kent, England, p.417.
QB44 .P6 v.1

Nichol, Francis D. The Midnight Cry. Washington, DC: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1944. Comet of 1843, pp.135,379.
Her. Coll. BX6116 .N5 1944 (2nd copy in main collection)

Sears, Clara Endicott. Days of Delusion: A Strange Bit of History. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Chapter V, "The Great Comet," pp.82-103. Illus.
Her. Coll. BX6116 .S4 1924 (2nd copy in main collection)

 

 

Periodicals

Nichol, F. D. "The Historical Background of Seventh-day Adventists - Part 17: The Year of the End of the World Begins." RH 121 (June 1, 1944): 5-6. "A Comet Appears" and "Millerite Comment on Comet", p.5.

Rowe, David L. "Comets and Eclipses: The Millerites, Nature, and the Apocalypse." Adventist Heritage 3 (Winter 1976): 10-19. Great comet of 1843 briefly discussed on page 17.

Schaefer, Bradley E. "Comets That Changed the World." Sky & Telescope 93 (May 1997): 46-51("The Millerite Comet," pp.49-50).

 

Web URLs

C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet). 4p.
http://cometography.com/lcomets/1843d1.html

Nantucket Historical Association (Log of the New Bradford whaling ship "Washington", March 6, 1843)
http://www.nha.org/HNcomet.htm