Look At That Fat Old Moon...
Full Moon Coming Filled With Great Lunacy
The Great Moon as printed in the Sun...
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.
A Trip to the Moon - the 1902 Science Fiction Film by Georges Méliès via
The articles described animals on the Moon, including bison, single-horned goats, mini zebras, unicorns, bipedal
tail-less beavers and bat-like winged humanoids ("Vespertilio-homo") who built temples. There were trees, oceans
and beaches. These discoveries were supposedly made with "an immense telescope of an entirely new principle".
Great Moon Hoax, Edinburgh Journal of Science, by Lilith de Thierry Freres
Eventually, the authors announced that the observations had been terminated by the destruction of the telescope,
by means of the Sun causing the lens to act as a "burning glass", setting fire to the observatory.
Herschel was initially amused by the hoax, noting that his own real observations could never be as exciting.
Edgar Allan Poe claimed the story was a plagiarism of his earlier work "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans
Pfaall," and "Hans Phaall - A Tale", published in the Southern Literary Messenger. via
Big Fat Moon · Walter Schmidt (2014)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax
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The Great Moon as printed in the Sun...
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.
A Trip to the Moon - the 1902 Science Fiction Film by Georges Méliès via
The articles described animals on the Moon, including bison, single-horned goats, mini zebras, unicorns, bipedal
tail-less beavers and bat-like winged humanoids ("Vespertilio-homo") who built temples. There were trees, oceans
and beaches. These discoveries were supposedly made with "an immense telescope of an entirely new principle".
Great Moon Hoax, Edinburgh Journal of Science, by Lilith de Thierry Freres
Eventually, the authors announced that the observations had been terminated by the destruction of the telescope,
by means of the Sun causing the lens to act as a "burning glass", setting fire to the observatory.
Herschel was initially amused by the hoax, noting that his own real observations could never be as exciting.
Edgar Allan Poe claimed the story was a plagiarism of his earlier work "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans
Pfaall," and "Hans Phaall - A Tale", published in the Southern Literary Messenger. via
Big Fat Moon · Walter Schmidt (2014)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax
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