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The Sun and the moon

by Matthew Goodman

HistoryMiscellaneaNew York (State)Corrupt practicesJournalismFraud in scienceSun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)Day, Benjamin Henry, -- 1810-1889

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.

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