The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (62 page)

39–41, 42, 290

Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of

and fire of August 12, 125–127

Science,
11, 136, 137, 138, 140,

first issue of, 17–18, 28–31

format of, 18–19, 27–28

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A Survey of Somerset
(Richard Locke,

U.S. Senate Select Committee on the

grandfather of Richard Adams

Oregon Territory, 236

Locke), 50

Ussher, James, 191

Tales of the Folio Club
(Edgar Allan

Vendors, street, 67, 173

Poe), 154

Vivalla, Signor, 112

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Von Kempelen, Wolfgang, 247–248

(Edgar Allan Poe), 159, 234

“Von Kempelen and His Discovery”

Tall tales, 30, 174

(Poe), 292

Tamerland and Other Poems
(Edgar

A Voyage to the Moon
(Tucker), 159

Allan Poe), 151

Tammany Society, 270

Wagenen, Isabella Van.
See
Truth,

Tappan, Arthur, 7, 40, 91, 92, 94,

Sojourner

Washington, Augustine, 116

Tappan, Lewis, 40

Webb, James Watson, 20, 45, 80, 81,

Tarbox, Thomas, 204–205, 214

82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 122–123, 131,

Taylor, Phineas, 99–100, 101–102, 104,

203, 213, 216, 272

as editor of
Courier and Enquirer,

Taylor, Samuel, 68

69–71

Telescope, 134, 136, 137–141, 142, 145,

and slavery, 91, 92

153, 163, 165–167, 169, 197, 200,

Weeks, Caleb, 223–227

The Western Rebellion
(Richard Locke,

and pluralism, 188, 190

grandfather of Richard Adams

Tenements, 22

Locke), 50

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 236

Weston Mercury and Somersetshire

Theology, and science, 13

Herald,
58

Thompson, George, 93

“What Is a Newspaper?”, 44

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 195, 275–276

Whistler
story, 30–31

A Treatise on Astronomy
(John

White, Thomas Willis, 233

Herschel), 10, 145–146, 147, 155,

Whitman, Walt, 84, 197, 268, 284

159–161, 162–163, 185, 192,

Why I Am a Universalist
(Phineas Taylor

Barnum), 99

Trinity Church, 8, 8 (photo)

Wilkins, John, 188–189

True Sun,
135, 283

Williams, Barney.
See
Flaherty, Bernard

Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Van

Willis, N. P., 11

Wagenen), 73

Willis, Robert, 248, 249

Tucker, George (pseud. Joseph Atterly),

Wilson, Effingham, 226

Wilson, James G., 37

the Turk (automaton chess player),

Wisner, George Washington, 45, 69, 71,

247–250, 251

as co-editor/co-owner of
Sun,
39–41,

Universalism, 98–99

“The Universe Restored” (Richard

as police-court reporter of
Sun,

Adams Locke), 133

36–39, 78–79

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Wisner, George Washington (
continued
)

Workingman’s Advocate,
74

radical politics of, 43–44, 89

Wright, Elizur, 7

and slavery, 93

Wyatt, Daniel, 125–126

and
Sun,
retirement from, 79–80,

Yale College, 180–182

Wooler, T. J., 55

Yellow fever, 296

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• Contents
  
• PROLOGUE: The Man on the Moon
  
• Part One: THE SUN
  
  • 1. Benjamin Day's Whistling Boy
    
  • 2. The News of the City
    
  • 3. Bearer of the Falcon Crest
    
  • 4. The Atrocious Impositions of Matthias
    
  • 5. "The Evil Spirit of the Times"
    
  • 6. The Prince of Ivy Island
    
  • 7. Strange Attractions
    
• Part Two: THE MOON
  
  • 8. Celestial Discoveries
    
  • 9. A Passage to the Moon
    
  • 10. "If This Account Is True, It Is Most Enormously Wonderful"
    
  • 11. The Picturesque Beauty of the Moon
    
  • 12. "The Astronomical Hoax Explained"
    
  • 13. Moonshine
    
  • 14. Monck Mason's Flying Machine
    
  • 15. "Joice Heth Is Not Dead"
    
  • 16. The Best Self-Hoaxed Man in New York
    
• EPILOGUE: That Tyranny Shall Be No Longer
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Notes
  
• Selected Bibliography
  
• Index
  
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