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Poe described a voyage to the Moon in a balloon, in which Pfaall lives for five years on the Moon with lunarians and sends back a lunarian to Earth. The Poe Moon hoax was less successful because of the satiric and comical tone of the account. Locke was able to upstage Poe and to steal his thunder. In
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which received much of their income from advertisements, a business practice made sustainable by large numbers of readers. The Sun was a pioneer when it came to producing shocking and often sensationalist journalism, being the first New York newspaper to report on murders, suicides, personal events,
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In his paper, Gruithuisen claimed to have observed various shades of color on the lunar surface, which he correlated with climate and vegetation zones. He also observed lines and geometrical shapes, which he felt indicated the existence of walls, roads, fortifications, and cities. However, a more
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However, the degree to which the hoax increased the paper's circulation has certainly been exaggerated in popular accounts of the event. It was not discovered to be a hoax for several weeks after its publication and, even then, the newspaper did not issue a retraction.
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of an entirely new principle". The telescope - transported to South Africa from New England - was said to be many times larger than any other telescope in the world. The lens measured "24 feet in diameter and 7 tons in weight".
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Herschel was initially amused by the hoax, noting that his own real observations could never be as exciting. He later became annoyed when he had to answer questions from people who believed the hoax was serious.
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The writer of the article was at first not known to the public. Authorship has subsequently been attributed to Richard Adams Locke (1800–1871), a reporter who, in August 1835, was working for
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contained 21,891,974,404,480 (21.9 trillion) inhabitants. In fact, the Moon alone, by his count, would contain 4,200,000,000 inhabitants. His writings were very popular in America;
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as a successful paper. It brought the journal to international fame, and the hoax resembled crime reports that allowed the readers to play detective, trying to discover the truth.
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A reprinted edition of 1836 added a second type named the Vespertiliones. The author of the narrative was ostensibly Dr. Andrew Grant, the travelling companion and
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The success of such sensational stories as the "Great Moon Hoax" can be partly attributed to the influence of contemporary speculative science. Figures like the
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and divorces, and it was because of stories such as these that the Sun thrived in attracting readers to their articles, and thus to their advertisements.
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The Moon Trilogy - a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Jerzy Żuławski, published in 1903–1911. The series consists of the following novels:
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The sensational reports of Richard Adams Locke were not out of place in the context of the mass proliferation of penny press newspapers such as the
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Assuming that Richard A. Locke was the author, his intentions were probably, first, to create a sensational story which would increase sales of
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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
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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
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Celestial Scenery; or, The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed: Illustrating the Perfections of Deity and a Plurality of Worlds
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Eventually, the authors announced that the observations had been terminated by the destruction of the telescope, by means of the
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1846, Poe would write a biographical sketch of Locke as part of his series "The Literati of New York City" which appeared in
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s circulation increased dramatically because of the hoax and remained permanently greater than before, thereby establishing
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on September 2–5, 1835, under the headline "Lunar Discoveries, Extraordinary Aerial Voyage by Baron Hans Pfaall".
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The hoax reflected a time when readers were looking for entertainment as much as information from
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The hoax inspired a three-part musical by composer Matt Dahan as part of his musical radio series
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The story was advertised on August 21, 1835, as an upcoming feature allegedly reprinted from
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newspapers, which would later change with the development of ethical reporting.
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dedicated a 2010 episode to the Great Moon Hoax entitled "The Moon in the Sun".
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Richard Adams Locke and the Great Moon Hoax are fictionalized in chapter 14 of
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Great Moon Hoax, Edinburgh Journal of Science, by Lilith de Thierry Freres
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The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power
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In Defense of Vespertilio-homo: Finding the Truth in the 1835 Moon Hoax
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His editor at the time was Richard Adams Locke. He later published "
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Vida, István Kornél (2012). "The "Great Moon Hoax" of 1835".
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by R. J. Brown at HistoryReference.org (archived 2016-02-24)
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Alternate worlds: the illustrated history of science fiction
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by Edgar Allan Poe – biographical essay from 1846 series
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film in which the Moon is inhabited by insect-like aliens
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claimed the story was a plagiarism of his earlier work "
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The articles described animals on the Moon, including
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Moon Hoax 1859 NY William Gowans, Richard Adams Locke
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Two other men have been noted in connection with the
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
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Lunar Bat-men, the Planet Vulcan and Martian Canals
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