英语词汇moon hoax的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Moon Hoax. Quite a few Americans have walked on the moon by now and none has seen evidence of life there, but in 1835, according to New York Sun reporter Richard Adams Locke, the eminent British astronomer Sir John Herschel trained a new, powerful telescope on the moon and observed some 15 species of animals, including what seemed to be a race of winged men. Locke’s article, supposedly reprinted from the actually defunct Edinburgh Journal of Science, raised the circu- lation of Locke’s newspaper from 2,500 to 20,000, and inspired one ladies’ club to raise money to send missionaries to the moon. The book that the Sun reporter wrote based on the arti- cle sold over 60,000 copies, and was studied assiduously by a scientific delegation from Yale. Locke finally admitted his hoax the following year, calling it a satire on absurd scientific specu- lations that had gotten out of hand. His friend Poe, who never believed a word of the story, nevertheless admitted that it had anticipated most of his own “Hans Pfall,” which was the reason he left that story unfinished.

词汇	moon hoax
词源	Moon Hoax. Quite a few Americans have walked on the moon by now and none has seen evidence of life there, but in 1835, according to New York Sun reporter Richard Adams Locke, the eminent British astronomer Sir John Herschel trained a new, powerful telescope on the moon and observed some 15 species of animals, including what seemed to be a race of winged men. Locke’s article, supposedly reprinted from the actually defunct Edinburgh Journal of Science, raised the circu- lation of Locke’s newspaper from 2,500 to 20,000, and inspired one ladies’ club to raise money to send missionaries to the moon. The book that the Sun reporter wrote based on the arti- cle sold over 60,000 copies, and was studied assiduously by a scientific delegation from Yale. Locke finally admitted his hoax the following year, calling it a satire on absurd scientific specu- lations that had gotten out of hand. His friend Poe, who never believed a word of the story, nevertheless admitted that it had anticipated most of his own “Hans Pfall,” which was the reason he left that story unfinished.
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