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The Moon Hoax
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "The Moon Hoax; Or, A Discovery that the Moon has a Vast Population of Human Beings" by Richard Adams Locke is a satirical scientific publication written in the early 19th century. The work presents a fictional account of purported astronomical discoveries that claim the Moon is inhabited by a diverse population, complete with trees, animals, and sentient beings resembling humans. This fantastical narrative explores the human desire for the mysterious and the unknown, merging scientific inquiry with vivid imagination. At the start of "The Moon Hoax," the publication explains the context behind its sensational claims, framing them as a revelation based on recent astronomical observations made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope. The text conveys a tone of awe and excitement about the celestial discoveries while charmingly satirizing the public's fascination with the extraordinary. Through eloquent descriptions, the opening introduces the notion of a beautiful, vibrant lunar world, inhabited by various forms of life, appealing to human curiosity about what lies beyond our earthly realm. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Credits:
- Produced by deaurider, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Notes:
- The Great Moon Hoax at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax
- A series of articles originally published in the Sun, Aug. 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). Sometimes attributed to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet.
- Reading ease score: 49.3 (College-level). Difficult to read.
- Release date is 2020-07-28
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