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The " Great Moon Hoax ", also known as the " Great Moon Hoax of 1835 " was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel and his fictitious companion Andrew Grant.
In that issue began a six-part series, now known as the Great Moon Hoax, that described the findings of Sir John Herschel, a real English astronomer who had traveled to the Cape of Good...
Nov 24, 2009 · The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set...
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The story alleged that Herschel had built the biggest telescope in existence to study the stars and that with this instrument, he had “solved or corrected nearly every leading problem of mathematical astronomy,” “firmly established a new theory of cometary phenomena,” and discovered life on the Moon.
- Meg Matthias
Aug 28, 2013 · August 28, 2013. 1 Comment. Man Bats Discovered on the Moon. During this week in 1835, an incredible story broke in the Sun Newspaper, New York City, which reported that the famed astronomer Sir John Herschel had made Great Astronomical Discoveries. While cataloging and mapping nebulae in the night sky at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa ...
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Aug 26, 2014 · He had realized the speculations of his father, astronomer Sir William Herschel, as he discovered life on the moon.[1] Or so the readers of The New York Sun were told, in a series of articles now known as the Great Moon Hoax.
The Great Moon Hoax (1835) Throughout the final week of August 1835, a long article appeared in serial form on the front page of the New York Sun. It bore the headline: GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES. LATELY MADE. BY SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. At the Cape of Good Hope. [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science]
