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245 14 a| The Sun and the moonh| [electronic resource] :b| the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York /c| Matthew Goodman.;

260 a| New York :b| Basic Books,;

300 a| ix, 350 p. :b| ill. ;c| 25 cm.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index.;

505 0 a| 1: The sun -- Benjamin Day's whistling boy -- The news of the city -- Bearer of the Falcon Crest -- The atrocious impositions of Matthias -- "The evil spirit of the times" -- The prince of Ivy Island -- Strange attractions -- 2: The moon -- Celestial discoveries -- A passage to the moon -- "If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful" -- The picturesque beauty of the moon -- "The astronomical hoax explained" -- Moonshine -- Monck Mason's flying machine -- "Joice Heth is not dead" -- The best self-hoaxed man in New York -- Epilogue: That tyranny shall be no longer.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| 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.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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The Sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York / Matthew Goodman.

Author/creator	Goodman, Matthew
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Basic Books,
Description	ix, 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810-1889. Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871. Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833) Fraud in science--New York (State). --New York. --History. --19th century. Journalism--Corrupt practices. Moon--Miscellanea. New York (N.Y.)--History. --19th century.

Contents	1: The sun -- Benjamin Day's whistling boy -- The news of the city -- Bearer of the Falcon Crest -- The atrocious impositions of Matthias -- "The evil spirit of the times" -- The prince of Ivy Island -- Strange attractions -- 2: The moon -- Celestial discoveries -- A passage to the moon -- "If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful" -- The picturesque beauty of the moon -- "The astronomical hoax explained" -- Moonshine -- Monck Mason's flying machine -- "Joice Heth is not dead" -- The best self-hoaxed man in New York -- Epilogue: That tyranny shall be no longer.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2008023617
ISBN	9780465002573 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0465002579 (alk. paper)

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