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Diligenza di ritorno dalla luna / Gaetana Dura, dis. ; Lit. Gatti e Dura.

Diligenza di ritorno dalla luna / Gaetana Dura, dis. ; Lit. Gatti e Du...

Print shows a flying machine returning from the moon. Plate IV from Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschel / Leopoldo Galluzzo ; J.N Nicollet ; Gaetano Dura ; Richard Adams Locke. Napoli : L. Gatti... More

Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px

Great-Moon-Hoax-1835-New-York-Sun-lithograph-298px

Rough image of the lithograph of the "ruby amphitheater" described in The Sun (New York City) newspaper (August 28, 1835): Our plain was of course immediately covered with the ruby front of this mighty amphi... More

Great Moon Hoax - Day 4

Great Moon Hoax - Day 4

Deutsch: Illustration zum vierten Artikel einer sechsteiligen amerikanischen Zeitungsserie über angebliches Leben auf dem Mond (Great Moon Hoax) English: Title: Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by S... More

Augustus Robin - Richard Adams Locke

Augustus Robin - Richard Adams Locke

Richard Adams Locke (1800 - 1871)- American journalist, author of the Great Moon Hoax.

Thierry Freres - Great Moon Hoax

Thierry Freres - Great Moon Hoax

Nouvelles découvertes dans la Lune, Faites par Sir John Herschel dans son observatoire du cap de bonne-espérance, d'après les dessins publiés par le journal des Sciences d'Edimbourg. (Edinburg Journal of Science.)

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

Deutsch: Vespertilio homo (Fledermausmensch aus der italienischen Ausgabe der Mond-Ente: Delle Scoperte Fatte Nella Luna del Dottor Giovanni Herschel.)

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

Deutsch: Vespertilio homo (Fledermausmensch aus der italienischen Ausgabe der Mond-Ente: Delle Scoperte Fatte Nella Luna del Dottor Giovanni Herschel.) English: Portrait of a man-bat (Vespertilio-homo), from ... More

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

1836 the-great-moon-hoax-new-inhabitants-of-the-moon

Deutsch: Vespertilio homo (Fledermausmensch aus der italienischen Ausgabe der Mond-Ente: Delle Scoperte Fatte Nella Luna del Dottor Giovanni Herschel.) English: Portrait of a man-bat (Vespertilio-homo), from ... More

Moon Hoax 1859 NY William Gowans
Moon Rosse Telescope 1856

Moon Rosse Telescope 1856

The moon, as seen by lord Rosse's telescope, 1856

Broadway 1834 Trinity Church

Broadway 1834 Trinity Church

Looking south on lower Broadway in the year 1834. Trinity Church is in the background. (Courtesy of the New York Public Library.)

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket. Landauer Co... More

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket. Landauer Co... More

Ritorno di Pulcinella dalla luna

Ritorno di Pulcinella dalla luna

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with Punch standing in a ship in which he has returned from the moon with bottles of "acqua lunateca." Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Dr... More

Ritorno di Pulcinella dalla luna

Ritorno di Pulcinella dalla luna

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with Punch standing in a ship in which he has returned from the moon with bottles of "acqua lunateca." Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Dr... More

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and copied from sketches in the Edinburgh Journal of Science.

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and copied from sketches in the Edinburgh Journal of Science.

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

Scoperte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschell

Scoperte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschell

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with a human-bat creature, two other supernatural creatures, and a lunar landscape. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Accession b... More

Scoperte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschell

Scoperte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschell

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with a human-bat creature, two other supernatural creatures, and a lunar landscape. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Accession b... More

Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna

Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with Punch riding to the moon in a ship on a chain track; inset shows Herschel's machine and moon observatory.

Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna

Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with Punch riding to the moon in a ship on a chain track; inset shows Herschel's machine and moon observatory.