Kebohongan Bulan Besar

"Kebohongan Bulan Besar" merujuk kepada serangkaian enam artikel yang diterbitkan dalam The Sun, sebuah surat kabar New York, bermula pada 25 Agustus 1835, tentang penemuan kehidupan dan bahkan peradaban di Bulan. Penemuan tersebut secara keliru diatributkan kepada Sir John Herschel, saalh satu astronom terkenal pada masa itu.

Referensi
 Evans, David S., "The Great Moon Hoax", Sky & Telescope, 196 (September 1981) and 308 (October 1981).
 Goodman, Matthew, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (New York: Basic Books, 2008) 
Vida, István Kornél, "The "Great Moon Hoax" of 1835", Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) 18.1/2 (2012): 431-41. Web.

Pranala luar

 The Moon Hoax (1859 reprint) at Internet Archive
 The Moon Hoax eBook at Project Gutenberg
 "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" by R. J. Brown at HistoryReference.org (archived 2016-02-24)
 "Episode 24: The Moon in the Sun"  (2010 podcast) at The Memory Palace 
 "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" (after 2011) at The Museum of Hoaxes – with linked transcripts of the 6 newspaper articles
 "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" (2011) at Victorian Gothic (archived 2017-06-30)
 "Richard Adams Locke" by Edgar Allan Poe – biographical essay from 1846 series The Literati of New York City
"Belief, Legend, and the Great Moon Hoax" (2014) at Library of Congress
 
 
 

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