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The moon hoax, or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings by Richard Adams Locke
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UNY .478
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
- Herschel, John F. W.
- Great Moon Hoax.
- Physical Description:
- vi, [7]-63 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Moon hoax
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. Gowans, 1859.
- Notes:
- A series of articles originally published in the Sun, August, 1835, 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 (then defunct) Has been ascribed on insufficient evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. cf. Dict. Amer. biog. ; F. M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun (1918) p. 64-102.
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