The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York

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Label

The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York

Title remainder

the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York

Statement of responsibility

Matthew Goodman

Creator

• Goodman, Matthew

Subject

• Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810-1889
• Journalism -- Corrupt practices
• Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)
• Fraud in science -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
• Moon -- Miscellanea
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
• Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871

Genre

• Miscellanea

Language

eng

Summary

A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/103

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QB581.9

LC item number

.G66 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography