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
• ISBN: 0465002579 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780465002573 (alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 974.7 New York
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Basic Books, c2008.
• Mô tả vật lý: ix, 350 p. : , ill. ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 85760
• Chủ đề: 1. Fraud in science--History--19th century--New York (State); 2. Journalism--Corrupt practices

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.