# Moon Hoax

An audiobook by Richard Adams Locke, read by LibriVox volunteers (2 h 25 min, English).

This hoax, subtitled “A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings,” was originally serialized in 1835 in the New York Sun newspaper. It purported itself to be a true account that had been published in the Edinburgh Journal of Science. Sir John Herschel, a well-known astronomer at the time, was credited with authorship. Herschel’s telescope, according to the story, was able to see man-bats and other animals, as well as a variety of geographical features, on the surface of the moon. The article was published at a time when newspapers were read as much for entertainment as for news. It was not uncovered as a hoax until weeks after its publication, and the paper never printed a retraction. - Summary by Verla Viera

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## Chapters

0. Advertisement (4:04): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_00_locke_64kb.mp3
1. Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made (7:22): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_01_locke_64kb.mp3
2. The Younger Herschel’s Telescope (31:17): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_02_locke_64kb.mp3
3. New Lunar Discoveries Part 1 (18:23): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_03_locke_64kb.mp3
4. New Lunar Discoveries Part 2 (20:30): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_04_locke_64kb.mp3
5. New Lunar Discoveries Part 3 (18:22): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_05_locke_64kb.mp3
6. New Lunar Discoveries Part 4 (18:09): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_06_locke_64kb.mp3
7. Appendix Part 1 The Moon as Known at the Present Time (18:20): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_07_locke_64kb.mp3
8. Appendix Part 2 (8:18): https://archive.org/download/moon_hoax_2309_librivox/moonhoax_08_locke_64kb.mp3