The moon hoax
Subtitle: or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings.
By: By Richard Adams Locke ...
Contributors: Nicollet, J. N. 1786-1843, supposed author.
Publisher: W. Gowans
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, bart., 1792-1871; Moon hoax
Notes: A series of articles 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.