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Author:

Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871.

Title:

The moon hoax; or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings / Richard Adams Locke ; with a new introd. by Ormond Seavey.

Publisher:

Gregg Press,

Copyright Date:

1975 c1859

Description:

xxxvi, 74 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Herschel, John F. W.--(John Frederick William),--Sir,--1792-1871--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843.

Other Titles:

Great astronomical discoveries
Discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings.

Notes:

A series of articles originally published in the Sun, Aug. 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. Reprint of the ed. published by W. Gowans, New York.

Series:

The Gregg Press science fiction series

ISBN:

9780839823087
0839823088

LCCN:

75005836

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)