Title: Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope

Title: Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope Title Record # 2030058
Author: Richard Adams Locke
Date: 1835-08-30
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: hoaxes.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: First published as a 6-part serial in New York daily newspaper The Sun, from August 25 to August 30 of 1835 --uncredited-- and under the heading (so fashioned at Hoaxes.org): GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE BY SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. At the Cape of Good Hope [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science]

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Year	Title
1835	A Complete Account of the Late Discoveries in the Moon: From a Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal [as by uncredited]
1836	Some Account of the Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir Thomas Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope [as by uncredited]
1852	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. at the Cape of Good Hope
1859	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel, L.L., D.F.R.S., &c., at the Cape of Good Hope
1876^ⓘ <i>The Moon Hoax; or, A Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings</i> is a chapbook title at ISFDB (<a href="http:///www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?676761">see</a>), with 1859 and 1976 editions that contain Locke's "Great Astronomical Discoveries" as short fiction, and other contents as non-fiction essays. Following Jules Verne's novel in the 1876 <i>All Around the Moon</i> (1st ed. of the Roth translation), Locke's moon story is published under the "Great Astronomical Discoveries" heading (p433), following a leaf that displays the full Moon Hoax title as "by Richard Adams Locke" (p431). The Contents listing (p6) is "Appendix:", next line "The Moon Hoax, by R. Adams Locke, 431".	The Moon Hoax; or, a Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings
1886	The Great Moon Hoax of Richard Adams Locke
1926^ⓘ A fictionalized essay, first published in the The Sun (New York), 25-31 August 1835 --uncredited, under the heading (five lines): "Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. at the Cape of Good Hope [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science]"	The Moon Hoax
2018	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel

Year	Language	Title
2017	German	Neueste Berichte vom Cap der guten Hoffnung über Sir John Herschel's höchst merkwürdige astronomische Entdeckungen, den Mond und seine Bewohner betreffend: Nebst kurzer Übersicht einiger neu entdeckter und beobachteter Doppelsterne und Nebelflecken

Year	Title
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 1 of 6)
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 2 of 6)
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 3 of 6)
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 4 of 6)
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 5 of 6)
1835	Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope (part 6 of 6)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope	1835-00-00	Richard Adams Locke				28	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	chap

Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
Review [German] by Christian Endres (2017) in phantastisch!, #67