The moon hoax, or, a discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings.. illustrated with a view of the moon, as seen by Lord Rosse's telescope

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, Baronet, 1792-1871.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William.

Great Moon Hoax.

Impostors and imposture.

Physical Description:

63 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Gowans, 1859.

Notes:

Pagination includes frontispiece of moon. Last l2 pages contain "A catalogue of books published by William Gowans ... New York: 1859."

A series of articles by Locke first published in the New York Sun, August 25-3l, l835, under title "Great Astronomical Discoveries," which purported to be an account of the discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope, and which pretended to be reprinted from a supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science, which had been defunct since l832. See Dictionary of American Biography; and F. M. O'Brien, The Story of the Sun (1918) p. 64-102.

"Appendix. The moon as known at the present time:" p. [51]-60. "Opinions of the American press respecting the foregoing discovery:" p. 60-63.