{"id":1793,"date":"2020-11-12T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:05","slug":"lunar-tricks-dundee-and-the-moon-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/lunar-tricks-dundee-and-the-moon-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Tricks \u2013 Dundee and the Moon Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1835 Moon Hoax was perhaps one of the greatest \u201cfake news\u201d stories of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. A New York newspaper published a series of articles revealing the truth about life on the moon. Allegedly reprinted from an Edinburgh publication, they were intended in part as a satirical of the work the Dundee astronomer, Rev Thomas Dick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_116204117_194841071655_1_original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1794\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_116204117_194841071655_1_original-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_116204117_194841071655_1_original-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_116204117_194841071655_1_original-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/11\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_116204117_194841071655_1_original.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a part of the Being Human Festival, Dundee University will be holding an online event on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> of November at 6pm to explore the history of the Moon hoax which will also act as an opening for a new art and designs exhibition Moon Beams.<\/p>\n<p>A series of short presentations will be given by Museum curator Mathew Jarron, a local astronomer Brian Kelly and Dr Keith Williams from the University of Dundee, as well as many more.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to book here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/lunar-tricks-dundee-and-the-moon-hoax-tickets-127304855249?aff=ebdssbeac\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/lunar-tricks-dundee-and-the-moon-hoax-tickets-127304855249?aff=ebdssbeac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1835 Moon Hoax was perhaps one of the greatest \u201cfake news\u201d stories of the 19th Century. A New York newspaper published a series of articles revealing the truth about life on the moon. Allegedly reprinted from an Edinburgh publication, they were intended in part as a satirical of the work the Dundee astronomer, Rev [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-science"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}