The Celebrated "moon Story, " Its Origin and Incidents with a Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix, Containing, I. An Authentic Description of the Moon; II. A New Theory of the Lunar Surface in Relation to that of the Earth

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A series of articles by Richard Adams Locke originally published in the Sun, August, 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. compare Dict. Amer. biog.: F. M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun (1918) pages 64-102.