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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodman, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, ©2008.
Temas:
Day, Benjamin Henry, > 1810-1889.
Day, Benjamin Henry, > 1810-1889
Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)
1800-1899
Fraud in science > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Journalism > Corrupt practices.
Fraude scientifique > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Journalisme > Pratiques déloyales.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Fraud in science
Journalism > Corrupt practices
Moon > Miscellanea.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century.
Lune > Miscellanées.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Moon
New York (State) > New York
History
Trivia and miscellanea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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