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100 1 _aLocke, Richard Adams,
_d1800-1871
245 1 4 _aThe moon hoax
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aThe Great Moon Hoax at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax
500 _aA 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.
500 _aRelease date is 2020-07-28
508 _aProduced 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)
520 _a"The Moon Hoax: Or, A Discovery that the Moon has a Vast Population of Human…" is a series of newspaper articles published in 1835. Beginning on August 25, The Sun newspaper reported astonishing discoveries of life on the Moon—including winged humanoids, unicorns, and temples—falsely attributed to astronomer Sir John Herschel. The elaborate hoax described observations through a massive telescope and captivated readers for weeks. Written by reporter Richard Adams Locke, the articles were intended as satire of extravagant astronomical theories, yet fooled the public and established the paper's fame. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aBiographical fiction
653 _aAstronomy -- Miscellanea
653 _aHerschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 -- Fiction
653 _aMoon -- Miscellanea
700 1 _aNicollet, J. N.
_q(Joseph Nicolas),
_d1786-1843
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62779
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