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

• Tác giả: Matthew Goodman
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0465002579
• ISBN-13: 978-0465002573
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 974.7 New York
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Basic Books , 2008
• Mô tả vật lý: ix, 350 p. : , ill. ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 85600
• Chủ đề: 1. Fraud in science--History--19th century--New York (State); 2. Journalism--Corrupt practices; 3. Moon; 4. New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century; 5. Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833); 6. Day, Benjamin Henry,; 7. Locke, Richard Adams,

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index.

Tóm tắt

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.