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The Sun and the moon

Matthew Goodman

2008
Fraud In Science -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19Th Century Fraud In Science Sun (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.