found: Work cat.: Locke, Richard Adams. The moon hoax, or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings, 1859.
found: Locke, Richard Adams. The great moon hoax of Richard Adams Locke, 1886.
found: LC database, July 11, 2008(hdg.: Moon hoax)
found: Internet encyclopedia of science(The first, sometimes referred to as the "Great Moon Hoax," was perpetrated in 1835 by Richard Adams Locke, a writer hired by the newly established New York Sun ... Beginning with the Aug. 25, 1835 issue of the Sun, Locke describes in detail all kinds of fantastic discoveries having been made by Herschel with a telescope of such power, he said, that it could see objects on the lunar surface as small as 18 inches across. In the second installment, the exotic variety of life supposedly found by Herschel is revealed, including a goatlike animal with a single horn and "an amphibious creature of spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach.")
found: Wikipedia, Jul. 11, 2008("The Great Moon Hoax" was a series of six articles that were published in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835 about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. The discoveries were attributed falsely to Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best-known astronomer of his time.)
