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

Richard Adams Locke

First published 1835
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

<br>Available on page 255, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.


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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1835 A Complete Account of the Late Discoveries in the Moon: From a Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal Sun Office Chapbook
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