Sun and the Moon
Subtitle: Nineteenth Century New York, Newspapers, and the Greatest Hoax of the Age
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: December 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780465002573
Subjects: World history; General; History; History - General History; History: World
Description: 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.