The sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York
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.
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Basic Books
2008
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| Schlagworte: |
Day, Benjamin Henry
> Locke, Richard Adams
> Herschel, John F. W.
> Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)
> The Sun
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Geschichte 1835
> Geschichte
> Fraud in science
> New York (State)
> Journalism
> Corrupt practices
> Außerirdisches Leben
> Falschmeldung
> Serie
> Mondbeobachtung
> Moon
> New York (N.Y.)
> History
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 350 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780465002573 978-0-465-00257-3 |