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001 75005836
003 DLC
005 20121017080901.0
008 750224r19751859maua 000 1 eng
010 $a 75005836
020 $a0839823088
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPZ3.L7953$bMo12$aPS2248.L835
082 00 $a813/.3
100 1 $aLocke, Richard Adams,$d1800-1871.
240 10 $aGreat astronomical discoveries
245 14 $aThe moon hoax; or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings /$cRichard Adams Locke ; with a new introd. by Ormond Seavey.
260 $aBoston :$bGregg Press,$c1975 [c1859]
300 $axxxvi, 74 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
490 0 $aThe Gregg Press science fiction series
500 $aA series of articles originally published in the Sun, Aug. 1835, under title "Great astronomical discoveries", which purported to be an account of the discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope, and which pretended to be reprinted from a supplement to the Edinburgh journal of science (then defunct). Has been ascribed on insufficient evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Cf. Dict. Amer. biog.; F.M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun, 1918, p. 64-102.
500 $aReprint of the ed. published by W. Gowans, New York.
600 10 $aHerschel, John F. W.$q(John Frederick William),$d1792-1871$xFiction.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xMiscellanea.
651 0 $aMoon$xMiscellanea.
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd
700 1 $aNicollet, J. N.$q(Joseph Nicolas),$d1786-1843.
740 0 $aDiscovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings.