The celebrated "moon story,"
Subtitle: its origin and incidents; with a memoir of the author, and an appendix, containing, I. An authentic description of the moon; II. A new theory of the lunar surface in relation to that of the earth.
By: By William N. Griggs.
Contributors: Griggs, William N., ed.; Nicollet, J. N. 1786-1843.
Publisher: Bunnell and Price
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Herschel, John F. W. Sir, 1792-1871; Moon hoax
Notes: A series of articles by Richard Adams Locke 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.