01490nam a2200277 4500 20041116161600.0 820910s1859 nyu 000 0 eng 40037532 AAR6618LB (OCoLC)ocm08760044 DLC SMI WaOLN UtOrBLW SMI* PZ3.L7953 G61 PS2248.L835 M818 PS2248.L835M818 Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871 The moon hoax; or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings. By Richard Adams Locke ... New York : W. Gowans, 1859. vi, [7]-63 p. incl. front. 25 cm. A series of articles originally published in the Sun, August, 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) Has been ascribed on insufficient evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. cf. Dict. Amer. biog. ; F. M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun (1918) p. 64-102. A collection of mostly portraits and clippings, including p.99-115 of the O'Brien article, are loosely inserted at end. Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871 Moon hoax. Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843 DC 9-3-82 osds 4/1/1999 update 600