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Baltimore Gun Club #1
賲賳 丕賱兀乇囟 廿賱賷 丕賱賯賲乇
乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱毓賱賲賷貙 賯丕賲 亘鬲兀賱賷賮賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷 噩賵賱 賮賷乇賳 賮賷 毓丕賲 1865貙 賵鬲丿賵乇 兀丨丿丕孬賴丕 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱鬲丕爻毓 毓卮乇 丨賵賱 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 兀毓囟丕亍 賳丕丿賷 丕賱賲丿賮毓 賯丕賲鬲 亘乇丨賱丞 廿賱賷 丕賱賯賲乇 賮賷 胤賱賯丞 賲丿賮毓 賯丿 氐賲賲 禺氐賷氐丕 賱賴匕丕 丕賱睾乇囟. 賵賰丕賳 賯丿 兀賱賮賴丕 賯亘賱 100 毓丕賲 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賲賳 廿胤賱丕賯 兀賵賱 氐丕乇賵禺 廿賱賶 丕賱賯賲乇.
229 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1865
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Jules Verne
6,856听books11.6k听followersNovels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(1864) and
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873).
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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November 20, 2021
De la Terre 脿 la Lune = From the Earth to the Moon (Extraordinary Voyages #4), Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.
It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people鈥攖he Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet鈥攊n a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing.
The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate.
However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers. The character of Michel Ardan, the French member of the party in the novel, was inspired by the real-life photographer F茅lix Nadar.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 01/11/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 28/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.
It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people鈥攖he Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet鈥攊n a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing.
The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate.
However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers. The character of Michel Ardan, the French member of the party in the novel, was inspired by the real-life photographer F茅lix Nadar.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 01/11/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 28/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
October 8, 2024
Una novela liviana, f谩cil de entender, r谩pida y entretenida. Me gust贸 mucho lo detallado que es Verne para dar las explicaciones del proyectil (Distancia, peso, materiales, etc). Todo con base y argumento. Con esto, me dieron ganas de aprender m谩s sobre f铆sica y cosas acerca de proyectiles que no s茅 absolutamente nada. Despu茅s de haber le铆do esto, ser茅 un poco m谩s cient铆fico para mis cosas.
Libro totalmente recomendable, amigable y liviano. Me gust贸.
Libro totalmente recomendable, amigable y liviano. Me gust贸.
February 14, 2018
鈽呪槄鈽呪湰鈽� 3.5 Stars
Alright, Kids. Let's start by catching some reel from Back To the Future III:
Clara Clayton: Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon like we travel across the country on trains?
Doc: Definitely, although not for another eighty-four years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles, capsules to sail off in rockets, devices that create giant explosions, explosions that are so powerful that they...
Clara Clayton: [finishes Doc's sentence] "They break the pull of the earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space."
[Doc stares at her in shock. Clara laughs]
Clara Clayton: Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon".
Jules Verne wrote "From Earth to Moon" in 1865, a century before the actual small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. In his novel, Verne introduces the Baltimore Gun Club, a group of Gun enthusiasts with a wide membership and an unquenchable thirst for action, yet they find themselves without a war to fight and nothing notable to occupy them.
Not for long.
When Impey Barbicane, the president of the club reveals his plans to create a gun long enough and strong enough to launch an expedition to the moon, the whole world is captivated by his dream. Calculations are made, locations are scouted, and days are marked. Will they be able to pull it off?
If you take a step back and look at the story, you'll see that It's about a bunch of gun-crazed adventure-loving Americans constructing a big ass gun, so that they can literally shoot for the moon... with a bullet.
Only when you take a closer look, you'll see the beauty of Verne's work. Yes, there are pages of mostly outdated 20th-century science dump, along with some shockingly accurate predictions and calculations. Also, there are pages of minute details like amount of money collected from each county for the project and list of banks participated, which probably is weird for a modern reader.
BUT when you put those pages behind you, you'll find a story filled with humor, courage and UTTER LUNACY!
Some of the best parts were
At the end of the day, From Earth to Moon is a bumpy and a fun ride. Apart from that, the novel's historical value is tremendous: To bring equilibrium to the which describes with many points why Verne's expedition won't work, there is a which showcases the predictions of Verne that came to fruition!
Alright, Kids. Let's start by catching some reel from Back To the Future III:
Clara Clayton: Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon like we travel across the country on trains?
Doc: Definitely, although not for another eighty-four years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles, capsules to sail off in rockets, devices that create giant explosions, explosions that are so powerful that they...
Clara Clayton: [finishes Doc's sentence] "They break the pull of the earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space."
[Doc stares at her in shock. Clara laughs]
Clara Clayton: Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon".
Jules Verne wrote "From Earth to Moon" in 1865, a century before the actual small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. In his novel, Verne introduces the Baltimore Gun Club, a group of Gun enthusiasts with a wide membership and an unquenchable thirst for action, yet they find themselves without a war to fight and nothing notable to occupy them.
Not for long.
When Impey Barbicane, the president of the club reveals his plans to create a gun long enough and strong enough to launch an expedition to the moon, the whole world is captivated by his dream. Calculations are made, locations are scouted, and days are marked. Will they be able to pull it off?
If you take a step back and look at the story, you'll see that It's about a bunch of gun-crazed adventure-loving Americans constructing a big ass gun, so that they can literally shoot for the moon... with a bullet.
Only when you take a closer look, you'll see the beauty of Verne's work. Yes, there are pages of mostly outdated 20th-century science dump, along with some shockingly accurate predictions and calculations. Also, there are pages of minute details like amount of money collected from each county for the project and list of banks participated, which probably is weird for a modern reader.
BUT when you put those pages behind you, you'll find a story filled with humor, courage and UTTER LUNACY!
Some of the best parts were
At the end of the day, From Earth to Moon is a bumpy and a fun ride. Apart from that, the novel's historical value is tremendous: To bring equilibrium to the which describes with many points why Verne's expedition won't work, there is a which showcases the predictions of Verne that came to fruition!
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March 4, 2020
From the Earth to the Moon was written almost 100 years before man finally stepped foot on the moon, a mixture of early sci-fi and adventure book that has truly imaginative elements alongside Jules Verne's very scientific mind.
In an America that is rather frightfully similar to its current state, gun enthusiasts find themselves at the end of the civil war without anything to shoot. The Baltimore Gun Club and its president, Impey Barbicane, decide that an altogether different approach to ballistics should be taken and undertake a mission to send a missile to the moon.
Inevitably, a Frenchman pops up and demands he man the missile, turning the un-manned mission in to a manned mission, and something that the whole country is captivated by.
Unparalleled in imagination, though rather lacking in some areas, Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon is an excellent read, especially considering the 1969 mission that actually occurred. It is a wonderful tale, though I think it relies far too heavily on what Verne was rather too fond of, and that's the scientific element. Many sci-fi writers fall foul of this and that's to add too much science and not enough fiction. Keeping the balance truly makes a "can't-possibly-happen" story turn in to a "wonderfully-imaginative-and-yet-might-actually-happen" story. Just as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, we seem to be inundated with Verne's intelligence.
The characters are much of a muchness and his stereotypes are complete, if rather boring. From the Earth to the Moon is an important book in as much as for the time it was written, than for any other reason. But it is still a very interesting read, great fun to get through and really won't challenge you but will still make you think.
In an America that is rather frightfully similar to its current state, gun enthusiasts find themselves at the end of the civil war without anything to shoot. The Baltimore Gun Club and its president, Impey Barbicane, decide that an altogether different approach to ballistics should be taken and undertake a mission to send a missile to the moon.
Inevitably, a Frenchman pops up and demands he man the missile, turning the un-manned mission in to a manned mission, and something that the whole country is captivated by.
Unparalleled in imagination, though rather lacking in some areas, Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon is an excellent read, especially considering the 1969 mission that actually occurred. It is a wonderful tale, though I think it relies far too heavily on what Verne was rather too fond of, and that's the scientific element. Many sci-fi writers fall foul of this and that's to add too much science and not enough fiction. Keeping the balance truly makes a "can't-possibly-happen" story turn in to a "wonderfully-imaginative-and-yet-might-actually-happen" story. Just as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, we seem to be inundated with Verne's intelligence.
The characters are much of a muchness and his stereotypes are complete, if rather boring. From the Earth to the Moon is an important book in as much as for the time it was written, than for any other reason. But it is still a very interesting read, great fun to get through and really won't challenge you but will still make you think.
February 20, 2022
I thought this was an excellent book, very understandable and easy to read. Jules Verne had a wonderful imagination and I look forward to reading other works by this author.
What I particularly liked was the satire and the technical explanation of how various types of telescope worked.
Who needs a technical manual when you can read Jules Verne?
What I particularly liked was the satire and the technical explanation of how various types of telescope worked.
Who needs a technical manual when you can read Jules Verne?
August 1, 2022
Como siempre me pasa con las novelas de Jules Verne, De la Tierra a la Luna ha sido una experiencia mayormente gratificante. Una novela que se lee r谩pido, f谩cil y que cumple con entretener y hacerte pasar un rato agradable. En pocas palabras, unas de esas lecturas para desconectar y que te entrega lo que te promete.
En De la Tierra a la Luna se plantea un proyecto muy ambicioso para su tiempo: la construcci贸n de un proyectil para ser enviado a la Luna. La historia empieza con una simple idea, para dar paso a una serie de consideraciones, c谩lculos, tipos de materiales a utilizar, entre otros aspectos aparentemente relevantes. Como es t铆pico en una novela de Verne, lo primero es discutir c贸mo hacer la idea posible, para posteriormente pasar a la ejecuci贸n del ambicioso proyecto. Entiendo que algunas veces esto podr铆a parecer tedioso, en especial cuando los personajes hablan de cantidades tal o cual, que al final del d铆a no son los puntos m谩s fuertes en la historia, pero pienso que una vez que toda esta etapa ha pasado, la novela se mantiene con un ritmo adecuado en el que empiezan a pasar muchas cosas relacionadas con la construcci贸n del proyectil y al menos a m铆 me mantuvo interesado desde ese momento hasta el final.
Con respecto a los personajes, hay cuatro que se podr铆an considerar los principales: el presidente del Gun Club, Barbicane, el secretario Maston, el capit谩n Nicholl, y por supuesto mi favorito y el t铆pico personaje verniano que se caracteriza por ser quien vive para la aventura y que es por lo general intr茅pido y valeroso, el franc茅s Michel Arden. Lo que destaco aqu铆 es la rivalidad que existe entre Nicholl y Barbicane, que a ratos me sacaba una risa, y tambi茅n la llegada de Arden para dar un giro muy inesperado a los planes que se ten铆an hasta ese momento.
No est谩 de m谩s mencionar que el tono sat铆rico que tiene la novela hacia ese deseo y ambici贸n por la expansi贸n y el poder es un total acierto, y quiz谩 no sea una sorpresa que Verne haya decidido situar su obra en los Estados Unidos, con (casi) todos sus personajes de dicha nacionalidad. Incluso hay un cap铆tulo titulado Florida y Texas que me hizo re铆r tanto dadas las similitudes con nuestra 茅poca actual y con ese comportamiento tan salvaje cuando de pol铆tica y poder se trata. Creo que preferir铆a reservarme otros posibles comentarios al respecto.
No est谩 de m谩s mencionar que en esta novela no somos testigos del viaje en s铆, ya que esa parte corresponde a su secuela, Viaje alrededor de la Luna, que espero estar leyendo muy pronto. Aqu铆 s贸lo encontramos el origen del proyecto, la planeaci贸n y la ejecuci贸n del mismo, pero aun as铆 no deja de ser muy interesante. Por supuesto, lo recomendar铆a a cualquier persona que disfrute de leer las obras del autor y como primer acercamiento tambi茅n.
鈥擬is valientes colegas, no hay ninguno de nosotros que no haya visto la Luna, o al menos que no haya o铆do hablar de ella. No les extra帽e que venga a hablarles del astro de las noches. Quiz谩 nos est茅 reservado ser los Colones de ese mundo desconocido. Compr茅ndanme, sec煤ndenme con toda su fuerza, y yo les guiar茅 a su conquista, y sus nombres se unir谩n a los nombres de los treinta y seis estados que forman este gran pa铆s de la Uni贸n.
En De la Tierra a la Luna se plantea un proyecto muy ambicioso para su tiempo: la construcci贸n de un proyectil para ser enviado a la Luna. La historia empieza con una simple idea, para dar paso a una serie de consideraciones, c谩lculos, tipos de materiales a utilizar, entre otros aspectos aparentemente relevantes. Como es t铆pico en una novela de Verne, lo primero es discutir c贸mo hacer la idea posible, para posteriormente pasar a la ejecuci贸n del ambicioso proyecto. Entiendo que algunas veces esto podr铆a parecer tedioso, en especial cuando los personajes hablan de cantidades tal o cual, que al final del d铆a no son los puntos m谩s fuertes en la historia, pero pienso que una vez que toda esta etapa ha pasado, la novela se mantiene con un ritmo adecuado en el que empiezan a pasar muchas cosas relacionadas con la construcci贸n del proyectil y al menos a m铆 me mantuvo interesado desde ese momento hasta el final.
Con respecto a los personajes, hay cuatro que se podr铆an considerar los principales: el presidente del Gun Club, Barbicane, el secretario Maston, el capit谩n Nicholl, y por supuesto mi favorito y el t铆pico personaje verniano que se caracteriza por ser quien vive para la aventura y que es por lo general intr茅pido y valeroso, el franc茅s Michel Arden. Lo que destaco aqu铆 es la rivalidad que existe entre Nicholl y Barbicane, que a ratos me sacaba una risa, y tambi茅n la llegada de Arden para dar un giro muy inesperado a los planes que se ten铆an hasta ese momento.
No est谩 de m谩s mencionar que el tono sat铆rico que tiene la novela hacia ese deseo y ambici贸n por la expansi贸n y el poder es un total acierto, y quiz谩 no sea una sorpresa que Verne haya decidido situar su obra en los Estados Unidos, con (casi) todos sus personajes de dicha nacionalidad. Incluso hay un cap铆tulo titulado Florida y Texas que me hizo re铆r tanto dadas las similitudes con nuestra 茅poca actual y con ese comportamiento tan salvaje cuando de pol铆tica y poder se trata. Creo que preferir铆a reservarme otros posibles comentarios al respecto.
No est谩 de m谩s mencionar que en esta novela no somos testigos del viaje en s铆, ya que esa parte corresponde a su secuela, Viaje alrededor de la Luna, que espero estar leyendo muy pronto. Aqu铆 s贸lo encontramos el origen del proyecto, la planeaci贸n y la ejecuci贸n del mismo, pero aun as铆 no deja de ser muy interesante. Por supuesto, lo recomendar铆a a cualquier persona que disfrute de leer las obras del autor y como primer acercamiento tambi茅n.
鈥擬is valientes colegas, no hay ninguno de nosotros que no haya visto la Luna, o al menos que no haya o铆do hablar de ella. No les extra帽e que venga a hablarles del astro de las noches. Quiz谩 nos est茅 reservado ser los Colones de ese mundo desconocido. Compr茅ndanme, sec煤ndenme con toda su fuerza, y yo les guiar茅 a su conquista, y sus nombres se unir谩n a los nombres de los treinta y seis estados que forman este gran pa铆s de la Uni贸n.
October 5, 2021
鈥淗ow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!鈥�
鈥� Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is the best book I have read from Verne so far. Perhaps, one of the reasons is that in about a century, his science-fiction novel came true. Verne wrote this novel in 1865, depicting the project as an ambitious American dream. It is interesting to see that in about a century, it all happened: in 1969, Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, and after a long journey, it landed on the moon.
In other words, the novel is full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Some other similarities between the novel and reality are fascinating. Verne once mentioned the glorious moment that Americans plant the flag of the United States on the lunar surface, just as it happened in 1969!
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Another wonderful thing about the novel was Verne's sophisticated knowledge in different areas. It was more likely for me that I was reading a scientific book rather than a fictional story. Jules Verne pointed out any problem he could imagine and tried to find a scientific solution for them. It almost sounds as if he had profoundly studied American geography, history, and society alongside chemistry, physics, and math. He also knew other international affairs and policies of his time as well.
As a person who studied American history and culture, I believe his assertions were valid. However, all Verne and I knew from America are the matters of the old America, but I truly hope it is still that great. :))
鈥淣othing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization, no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.鈥�
鈥� Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
鈥� Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is the best book I have read from Verne so far. Perhaps, one of the reasons is that in about a century, his science-fiction novel came true. Verne wrote this novel in 1865, depicting the project as an ambitious American dream. It is interesting to see that in about a century, it all happened: in 1969, Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, and after a long journey, it landed on the moon.
In other words, the novel is full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Some other similarities between the novel and reality are fascinating. Verne once mentioned the glorious moment that Americans plant the flag of the United States on the lunar surface, just as it happened in 1969!
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Another wonderful thing about the novel was Verne's sophisticated knowledge in different areas. It was more likely for me that I was reading a scientific book rather than a fictional story. Jules Verne pointed out any problem he could imagine and tried to find a scientific solution for them. It almost sounds as if he had profoundly studied American geography, history, and society alongside chemistry, physics, and math. He also knew other international affairs and policies of his time as well.
As a person who studied American history and culture, I believe his assertions were valid. However, all Verne and I knew from America are the matters of the old America, but I truly hope it is still that great. :))
鈥淣othing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization, no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.鈥�
鈥� Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
February 12, 2025
From its beginnings, this early work of science fiction, by one of the founding authors of the genre, revels in its sheer wealth of scientific detail 鈥� and the science-minded reader is likely to note many interesting instances of consonance and dissonance between Jules Verne鈥檚 imagined lunar voyage in From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and the real-life accomplishment of a lunar landing by the Apollo 11 astronauts 104 years after Verne published his novel.
Jules Verne remains one of the authors associated most strongly with science fiction as a literary genre. As contemporary SF author Gregory Benford points out in an informative foreword, Verne continues to appeal to authors and readers of 鈥渉ard SF鈥� 鈥� meaning science fiction that hews as closely as possible to known scientific fact. Where Verne鈥檚 contemporary H.G. Wells indulged in storytelling elements that seemed more overtly fantastical 鈥� invaders from Mars, invisibility serums, a hollow moon inhabited by Selenites 鈥� Verne drew upon his own considerable scientific erudition, and tried not to step too far beyond what the science of his time deemed possible.
Perhaps it is for that reason that so many of the seemingly fanciful SF speculations of Verne鈥檚 work have come to pass: going around the world in less than three months, say, or travelling 20,000 leagues (60,000 nautical miles) under the sea in a submarine called the Nautilus 鈥� or flying from the earth to the moon.
As a Marylander, I was surprised and pleased to find that De la terre 脿 la lune begins in, of all places, Union Square in Baltimore. Today, Union Square is a lovely part of the Sowebo (South West Baltimore) neighborhood, close to Hollins Market and H.L. Mencken鈥檚 old house. In Verne鈥檚 fictive Baltimore, Union Square is home to the Baltimore Gun Club, an organization of artillery manufacturers and artillery officers, many of whom are missing eyes, arms, legs, or other body parts because of the dangerous nature of their trade.
With the end of the American Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club are generally distraught, because the demand for their work is likely to decline. Yet low spirits among the group鈥檚 membership are quickly lifted when the club鈥檚 president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that the group build an exceptionally large cannon that would work as a 鈥渟pace gun,鈥� launching a projectile to the moon.
Verne鈥檚 enthusiasm for scientific detail comes out in Barbicane鈥檚 setting-forth, for the benefit of Baltimore Gun Club members (and Verne鈥檚 readers) of the details behind a successful moon launch:
鈥淲hen a projectile is launched into space, what happens? It鈥檚 acted on by three independent forces: air resistance, the pull of the earth鈥檚 gravity, and the propulsive force that鈥檚 been applied to it. Let鈥檚 examine these three forces. Air resistance will be unimportant. The earth鈥檚 atmosphere is only forty miles thick. At a speed of 36,000 feet per second, the shell will go through it in five seconds, and that time is so short that we can regard air resistance as insignificant. Next, let鈥檚 consider the pull of the earth鈥檚 gravity 鈥� in other words, the shell鈥檚 weight. We know that its weight will diminish in inverse ratio to the square of its distance from the earth. Here鈥檚 what physics tells us: when a body is dropped near the surface of the earth, it falls fifteen feet in the first second, but if it were as far away from the earth as the moon is 鈥� 257,242 miles 鈥� it would fall only a twentieth of an inch in the first second; in short, it would remain almost motionless. So we must progressively conquer the force of gravity. How will we do it? By the propulsive force we鈥檒l use.鈥� (p. 55)
The gun club鈥檚 plan captures the attention of the entire world, many of whose nations pledge financial support. Yet there are complications, including an enduring and bitter rivalry between Barbicane, as a builder of artillery weapons, and one Captain Nicholl, a Philadelphia-based armour manufacturer. Nicholl establishes a series of wagers against the viability of the BGC project, and the reader wonders how much the rivalry between Nicholl and Barbicane will accelerate, and with what consequences.
It is interesting to see what aspects of lunar exploration Verne anticipated with some degree of accuracy, a century before human beings reached the moon. One accurate prediction Verne made was that the United States, with its enterprising people and its traditions of mechanical innovation, would be the first nation to reach the moon. Another thing Verne got right was that any American space program would involve warm-weather states like Texas (now home to Johnson Space Center) and Florida (today, the site of Cape Canaveral). One could even say that Verne looked ahead beyond NASA, to an era when private companies would take the lead in space travel. From the Baltimore Gun Club to Space-X, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic? The mind boggles.
Back in the world of From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane resolves the Texas-Florida rivalry over the prospective launch site by naming a Tampa-area site at Stone Hill, Florida, as the site where the cannon will be built to launch a projectile toward the Moon. As he makes this declaration, he reveals author Verne鈥檚 dedication to establishing a set of details thorough enough to give his scientific romances a sense of verisimilitude:
鈥淭his place is 1800 feet above sea level, latitude 27潞 7鈥� north, longitude 5潞 7鈥� west. Its dryness and rockiness seem to indicate all the conditions favorable to our project, so it鈥檚 here that we鈥檒l build our powder magazines, our workshops, our furnaces, and the houses for our workers, and it will be from here, from this very spot,鈥� he said emphatically, stamping his foot on Stone Hill, 鈥渢hat our projectile will begin its journey through space to the moon!鈥� (p. 100)
It all sounds quite convincing 鈥� even if, in fact, the highest point of land in Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.
Eventually, the BGC鈥檚 plans to send an unmanned projectile to the moon when a man named Michel Ardan, a French adventure-seeker with a decided Indiana Jones flair, makes clear that he wants to travel to the moon on what will now be a manned spacecraft. At a public meeting on the topic, Ardan is subjected to a hostile line of questioning regarding his proposed trip to the moon:
鈥淲hat about food and water?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e calculated that I can take along enough for a year, and my journey will last only four days!鈥�
鈥淎nd what about air?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檒l make it by chemical processes.鈥�
鈥淎nd your fall on the moon, assuming you ever get there?鈥�
鈥淚t will only be a sixth as fast as a fall on the earth, since the pull of gravity is only a sixth as strong on the moon.鈥�
鈥淏ut it will still be strong enough to break you like a glass!鈥�
鈥淲hat鈥檚 to stop me from slowing down my fall by igniting properly placed rockets at the right time?鈥�
鈥淎ll right, suppose we say all those difficulties are resolved, all those obstacles are overcome; suppose we put all the chances in your favor and say you arrive safe and sound on the moon. How will you get back?鈥�
鈥淚 won鈥檛.鈥� (p. 153)
Well! That would have shut down any Gemini or Apollo space-project news conference, back in the day.
It should be no surprise that the hostile questioner of Ardan is Barbicane鈥檚 old nemesis, Captain Nicholl, or that the hostility between the two men quickly reaches a crisis point.
Yet a launch is eventually made, with the time to blast-off being counted second by second, though the BGC personnel count up to 40 rather than having a countdown to zero. Still, once an electric spark has been transmitted down to the bottom of the cannon,
Instantly there was a terrifying, fantastic, superhuman detonation which could not be compared to thunder or any previously known sound, not even the eruption of a volcano. An immense spout of flame shot from the bowels of the earth as from a crater. The ground heaved, and only a few people caught a brief glimpse of the projectile victoriously cleaving the air amid clouds of glowing vapor鈥� (pp. 203-04)
The results of the launch include an earthquake, along with hurricane-force winds that destroy 100 buildings across Tampa, as well as ships being sunk 300 miles out in the Atlantic 鈥� in contrast with the first Cape Canaveral rocket launch in 1950, where nothing untoward happened at all. As Benford points out in his commentary, Verne鈥檚 mode of launching a spacecraft to the moon could pose some serious problems in celestial mechanics. But I would rather enjoy Verne鈥檚 storytelling verve than quibble with his deployment of applied science.
From the Earth to the Moon ends on a note of uncertainty, with the BGC spacecraft and three human occupants orbiting the moon, with no particular way of either landing on the Moon or returning to Earth. No doubt it was for this reason that Verne published a sequel, Around the Moon, in 1869.
This book provides a fun, steampunk-style look at the possibilities of lunar travel 鈥� even if, for me, it did not reach the heights of Verne鈥檚 masterpieces, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Still, no one can deny its cultural influence. Verne鈥檚 two moon novels inspired filmmaker Georges M茅li猫s to make his film A Trip to the Moon (1902), with its iconic special-effects image of the travelers鈥� space capsule crashing right into the eye of the Man in the Moon! From the Earth to the Moon was adapted for cinema in 1958 鈥� just 11 years before the Apollo moon landing 鈥� with a cast that included Joseph Cotten and George Sanders. And in 1998, when Ron Howard and Tom Hanks developed an epic multi-part HBO documentary about the Space Race era, the title that they gave the documentary was, perhaps inevitably, From the Earth to the Moon.
Jules Verne remains one of the authors associated most strongly with science fiction as a literary genre. As contemporary SF author Gregory Benford points out in an informative foreword, Verne continues to appeal to authors and readers of 鈥渉ard SF鈥� 鈥� meaning science fiction that hews as closely as possible to known scientific fact. Where Verne鈥檚 contemporary H.G. Wells indulged in storytelling elements that seemed more overtly fantastical 鈥� invaders from Mars, invisibility serums, a hollow moon inhabited by Selenites 鈥� Verne drew upon his own considerable scientific erudition, and tried not to step too far beyond what the science of his time deemed possible.
Perhaps it is for that reason that so many of the seemingly fanciful SF speculations of Verne鈥檚 work have come to pass: going around the world in less than three months, say, or travelling 20,000 leagues (60,000 nautical miles) under the sea in a submarine called the Nautilus 鈥� or flying from the earth to the moon.
As a Marylander, I was surprised and pleased to find that De la terre 脿 la lune begins in, of all places, Union Square in Baltimore. Today, Union Square is a lovely part of the Sowebo (South West Baltimore) neighborhood, close to Hollins Market and H.L. Mencken鈥檚 old house. In Verne鈥檚 fictive Baltimore, Union Square is home to the Baltimore Gun Club, an organization of artillery manufacturers and artillery officers, many of whom are missing eyes, arms, legs, or other body parts because of the dangerous nature of their trade.
With the end of the American Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club are generally distraught, because the demand for their work is likely to decline. Yet low spirits among the group鈥檚 membership are quickly lifted when the club鈥檚 president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that the group build an exceptionally large cannon that would work as a 鈥渟pace gun,鈥� launching a projectile to the moon.
Verne鈥檚 enthusiasm for scientific detail comes out in Barbicane鈥檚 setting-forth, for the benefit of Baltimore Gun Club members (and Verne鈥檚 readers) of the details behind a successful moon launch:
鈥淲hen a projectile is launched into space, what happens? It鈥檚 acted on by three independent forces: air resistance, the pull of the earth鈥檚 gravity, and the propulsive force that鈥檚 been applied to it. Let鈥檚 examine these three forces. Air resistance will be unimportant. The earth鈥檚 atmosphere is only forty miles thick. At a speed of 36,000 feet per second, the shell will go through it in five seconds, and that time is so short that we can regard air resistance as insignificant. Next, let鈥檚 consider the pull of the earth鈥檚 gravity 鈥� in other words, the shell鈥檚 weight. We know that its weight will diminish in inverse ratio to the square of its distance from the earth. Here鈥檚 what physics tells us: when a body is dropped near the surface of the earth, it falls fifteen feet in the first second, but if it were as far away from the earth as the moon is 鈥� 257,242 miles 鈥� it would fall only a twentieth of an inch in the first second; in short, it would remain almost motionless. So we must progressively conquer the force of gravity. How will we do it? By the propulsive force we鈥檒l use.鈥� (p. 55)
The gun club鈥檚 plan captures the attention of the entire world, many of whose nations pledge financial support. Yet there are complications, including an enduring and bitter rivalry between Barbicane, as a builder of artillery weapons, and one Captain Nicholl, a Philadelphia-based armour manufacturer. Nicholl establishes a series of wagers against the viability of the BGC project, and the reader wonders how much the rivalry between Nicholl and Barbicane will accelerate, and with what consequences.
It is interesting to see what aspects of lunar exploration Verne anticipated with some degree of accuracy, a century before human beings reached the moon. One accurate prediction Verne made was that the United States, with its enterprising people and its traditions of mechanical innovation, would be the first nation to reach the moon. Another thing Verne got right was that any American space program would involve warm-weather states like Texas (now home to Johnson Space Center) and Florida (today, the site of Cape Canaveral). One could even say that Verne looked ahead beyond NASA, to an era when private companies would take the lead in space travel. From the Baltimore Gun Club to Space-X, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic? The mind boggles.
Back in the world of From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane resolves the Texas-Florida rivalry over the prospective launch site by naming a Tampa-area site at Stone Hill, Florida, as the site where the cannon will be built to launch a projectile toward the Moon. As he makes this declaration, he reveals author Verne鈥檚 dedication to establishing a set of details thorough enough to give his scientific romances a sense of verisimilitude:
鈥淭his place is 1800 feet above sea level, latitude 27潞 7鈥� north, longitude 5潞 7鈥� west. Its dryness and rockiness seem to indicate all the conditions favorable to our project, so it鈥檚 here that we鈥檒l build our powder magazines, our workshops, our furnaces, and the houses for our workers, and it will be from here, from this very spot,鈥� he said emphatically, stamping his foot on Stone Hill, 鈥渢hat our projectile will begin its journey through space to the moon!鈥� (p. 100)
It all sounds quite convincing 鈥� even if, in fact, the highest point of land in Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.
Eventually, the BGC鈥檚 plans to send an unmanned projectile to the moon when a man named Michel Ardan, a French adventure-seeker with a decided Indiana Jones flair, makes clear that he wants to travel to the moon on what will now be a manned spacecraft. At a public meeting on the topic, Ardan is subjected to a hostile line of questioning regarding his proposed trip to the moon:
鈥淲hat about food and water?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e calculated that I can take along enough for a year, and my journey will last only four days!鈥�
鈥淎nd what about air?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檒l make it by chemical processes.鈥�
鈥淎nd your fall on the moon, assuming you ever get there?鈥�
鈥淚t will only be a sixth as fast as a fall on the earth, since the pull of gravity is only a sixth as strong on the moon.鈥�
鈥淏ut it will still be strong enough to break you like a glass!鈥�
鈥淲hat鈥檚 to stop me from slowing down my fall by igniting properly placed rockets at the right time?鈥�
鈥淎ll right, suppose we say all those difficulties are resolved, all those obstacles are overcome; suppose we put all the chances in your favor and say you arrive safe and sound on the moon. How will you get back?鈥�
鈥淚 won鈥檛.鈥� (p. 153)
Well! That would have shut down any Gemini or Apollo space-project news conference, back in the day.
It should be no surprise that the hostile questioner of Ardan is Barbicane鈥檚 old nemesis, Captain Nicholl, or that the hostility between the two men quickly reaches a crisis point.
Yet a launch is eventually made, with the time to blast-off being counted second by second, though the BGC personnel count up to 40 rather than having a countdown to zero. Still, once an electric spark has been transmitted down to the bottom of the cannon,
Instantly there was a terrifying, fantastic, superhuman detonation which could not be compared to thunder or any previously known sound, not even the eruption of a volcano. An immense spout of flame shot from the bowels of the earth as from a crater. The ground heaved, and only a few people caught a brief glimpse of the projectile victoriously cleaving the air amid clouds of glowing vapor鈥� (pp. 203-04)
The results of the launch include an earthquake, along with hurricane-force winds that destroy 100 buildings across Tampa, as well as ships being sunk 300 miles out in the Atlantic 鈥� in contrast with the first Cape Canaveral rocket launch in 1950, where nothing untoward happened at all. As Benford points out in his commentary, Verne鈥檚 mode of launching a spacecraft to the moon could pose some serious problems in celestial mechanics. But I would rather enjoy Verne鈥檚 storytelling verve than quibble with his deployment of applied science.
From the Earth to the Moon ends on a note of uncertainty, with the BGC spacecraft and three human occupants orbiting the moon, with no particular way of either landing on the Moon or returning to Earth. No doubt it was for this reason that Verne published a sequel, Around the Moon, in 1869.
This book provides a fun, steampunk-style look at the possibilities of lunar travel 鈥� even if, for me, it did not reach the heights of Verne鈥檚 masterpieces, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Still, no one can deny its cultural influence. Verne鈥檚 two moon novels inspired filmmaker Georges M茅li猫s to make his film A Trip to the Moon (1902), with its iconic special-effects image of the travelers鈥� space capsule crashing right into the eye of the Man in the Moon! From the Earth to the Moon was adapted for cinema in 1958 鈥� just 11 years before the Apollo moon landing 鈥� with a cast that included Joseph Cotten and George Sanders. And in 1998, when Ron Howard and Tom Hanks developed an epic multi-part HBO documentary about the Space Race era, the title that they gave the documentary was, perhaps inevitably, From the Earth to the Moon.
February 3, 2022
螒蟺蠈 蟿伪 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓伪 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽渭伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪喂未喂魏蠋谓 渭伪蟼 蠂蟻蠈谓蠅谓.
螡慰渭委味蠅 蟺蠅蟼 萎 伪蠀蟿蠈 萎 慰喂 "20 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 位蔚蠉纬蔚蟼 魏维蟿蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 胃维位伪蟽蟽伪" 萎蟿伪谓 蟿慰 蟺蟻蠋蟿慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 未喂维尾伪蟽伪 蟽蟿畏 味蠅萎 渭慰蠀.
桅蠀蟽喂魏维, 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺位苇慰谓 未蔚委蠂谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 畏位喂魏委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻伪蟺维谓蠅, 魏伪喂 未蔚谓 尉苇蟻蠅 伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈谓 谓伪 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿畏谓 委未喂伪 伪蟺萎蠂畏蟽畏 蟽蟿伪 谓蔚蠈蟿蔚蟻伪 蟺伪喂未喂维.
螤维谓蟿蠅蟼 纬喂伪 蔚渭维蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 40+, 慰 螜慰蠉位喂慰蟼 螔蔚蟻谓 蟺伪蟻伪渭苇谓蔚喂 渭喂伪 渭蠀胃喂魏萎 渭慰蟻蠁萎 蟿畏蟼 蟺伪喂未喂魏萎蟼 渭伪蟼 畏位喂魏委伪蟼.
螡慰渭委味蠅 蟺蠅蟼 萎 伪蠀蟿蠈 萎 慰喂 "20 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 位蔚蠉纬蔚蟼 魏维蟿蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 胃维位伪蟽蟽伪" 萎蟿伪谓 蟿慰 蟺蟻蠋蟿慰 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 未喂维尾伪蟽伪 蟽蟿畏 味蠅萎 渭慰蠀.
桅蠀蟽喂魏维, 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺位苇慰谓 未蔚委蠂谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 畏位喂魏委伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻伪蟺维谓蠅, 魏伪喂 未蔚谓 尉苇蟻蠅 伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈谓 谓伪 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿畏谓 委未喂伪 伪蟺萎蠂畏蟽畏 蟽蟿伪 谓蔚蠈蟿蔚蟻伪 蟺伪喂未喂维.
螤维谓蟿蠅蟼 纬喂伪 蔚渭维蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 40+, 慰 螜慰蠉位喂慰蟼 螔蔚蟻谓 蟺伪蟻伪渭苇谓蔚喂 渭喂伪 渭蠀胃喂魏萎 渭慰蟻蠁萎 蟿畏蟼 蟺伪喂未喂魏萎蟼 渭伪蟼 畏位喂魏委伪蟼.
March 25, 2020
Una storia molto particolare, questa di Verne.
Nei volumi precedenti di questi Viaggi Straordinari avevo trovato sbocchi comici, spesso affidati al servitore di turno mentre il protagonista rimaneva monolitico, serio e sicuro di s茅.
Qui invece fin dall'inizio la storia ha tratti comici, le situazioni e le persone vengono accentuate ed estremizzate al punto da richiamare in pi霉 punti un Pratchett o un Benni.
Abbiamo il Gun Club, che contrariamente ai club "inglesi" visti in altri libri 猫 formato da appassionati sfegatati di armi da fuoco, soprattutto cannoni. Persone che se le progettavano, costruivano e poi correvano sul campo di battaglia a provarle contro i Secessionisti.
Un nugolo di gente pressoch茅 menomata, e totalmente pazza.
Lo stile usato nella narrazione si conf脿 a questi appassionati cannonieri, cos矛 il loro piano iniziale 猫 di raggiungere la luna con una grande palla di cannone. In segno di amicizia.
Purtroppo, a rovinare l'effetto di quella che poteva essere una storia veloce, divertente e in grado di strappare diverse risate, ci sono state alcune parti in cui Verne sembra indeciso su cosa voglia ottenere e piazza a tradimento capitoli di spiegazioni e di elenchi di fatti scientifici.
Sorprendente e piacevolissimo il finale, comunque il personaggio principe 猫 senza dubbio Maston, il folle di buon cuore che vive per i suoi cannoni.
Azzeccata la scelta della seconda storia da mettere nel libro, "Il signor Oss", che prosegue sul filone umoristico\scientifico mostrandoci un paesino fiammingo sconosciuto al mondo dove da secoli la flemma permea abitanti, animali e natura. Non ci sono rumori, chi si muove lo fa lentamente, le decisioni richiedono tempistiche degne degli Ent di Tolkien, non ci sono litigi, non ci sono cause. Un paese al rallentatore e sotto morfina, insomma.
Finch茅 non arriva il misterioso Oss col progetto di finanziare a sue spese l'illuminazione pubblica della citt脿, un'illuminazione di nuova generazione ideata da lui, tramite gas ossidrico. E le cose cominciano a cambiare... piacevole.
Nei volumi precedenti di questi Viaggi Straordinari avevo trovato sbocchi comici, spesso affidati al servitore di turno mentre il protagonista rimaneva monolitico, serio e sicuro di s茅.
Qui invece fin dall'inizio la storia ha tratti comici, le situazioni e le persone vengono accentuate ed estremizzate al punto da richiamare in pi霉 punti un Pratchett o un Benni.
Abbiamo il Gun Club, che contrariamente ai club "inglesi" visti in altri libri 猫 formato da appassionati sfegatati di armi da fuoco, soprattutto cannoni. Persone che se le progettavano, costruivano e poi correvano sul campo di battaglia a provarle contro i Secessionisti.
Un nugolo di gente pressoch茅 menomata, e totalmente pazza.
Lo stile usato nella narrazione si conf脿 a questi appassionati cannonieri, cos矛 il loro piano iniziale 猫 di raggiungere la luna con una grande palla di cannone. In segno di amicizia.
Purtroppo, a rovinare l'effetto di quella che poteva essere una storia veloce, divertente e in grado di strappare diverse risate, ci sono state alcune parti in cui Verne sembra indeciso su cosa voglia ottenere e piazza a tradimento capitoli di spiegazioni e di elenchi di fatti scientifici.
Sorprendente e piacevolissimo il finale, comunque il personaggio principe 猫 senza dubbio Maston, il folle di buon cuore che vive per i suoi cannoni.
Azzeccata la scelta della seconda storia da mettere nel libro, "Il signor Oss", che prosegue sul filone umoristico\scientifico mostrandoci un paesino fiammingo sconosciuto al mondo dove da secoli la flemma permea abitanti, animali e natura. Non ci sono rumori, chi si muove lo fa lentamente, le decisioni richiedono tempistiche degne degli Ent di Tolkien, non ci sono litigi, non ci sono cause. Un paese al rallentatore e sotto morfina, insomma.
Finch茅 non arriva il misterioso Oss col progetto di finanziare a sue spese l'illuminazione pubblica della citt脿, un'illuminazione di nuova generazione ideata da lui, tramite gas ossidrico. E le cose cominciano a cambiare... piacevole.
July 22, 2020
Is it the fate of every science fiction novel to become obsolete, to appear quaint, even silly in ages to come? Verne was certainly a pioneer, and this book is impressive in a number of ways. But on the narrative level, it performs a glorious belly flop.
Pages and pages of engineering terminology, numbers, weights and measures. A few snide lampoons in the form of the American Gun club, who are determined to fire off their experiment as quickly and dramatically as possible. The set up is very Verne, but the process and intricate examination of the principles underlying the book's thesis are tedious in the extreme, unless you like scientific textbooks. Verne passed off many such treatises as "adventures." Historians will always read him, but I predict his fans will die out as his works are superseded by modern innovations in fiction. Maybe if he had balanced the storyteller's art with the research more evenly.
Pages and pages of engineering terminology, numbers, weights and measures. A few snide lampoons in the form of the American Gun club, who are determined to fire off their experiment as quickly and dramatically as possible. The set up is very Verne, but the process and intricate examination of the principles underlying the book's thesis are tedious in the extreme, unless you like scientific textbooks. Verne passed off many such treatises as "adventures." Historians will always read him, but I predict his fans will die out as his works are superseded by modern innovations in fiction. Maybe if he had balanced the storyteller's art with the research more evenly.
July 5, 2017
As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.
Yup, this is still my favourite quote. Simply because I cannot get over Verne daring to imagine that iconic tv image from 1969 in 1865.
There were a lot fun points that Verne picked up in this novel and made fun of, but sadly a lot of the satire in this novel is at the expense of the US, who is pretty much represented only by the characters of the Baltimore Gun Club, who out of boredom following the end of the Civil War, attempt to build a cannon that can reach the moon.
I enjoyed the poking fun at gun enthusiasts, I did not enjoy the poking fun at whole nation. There were some other stereotypes, too, French and German, but the majority of Verne's mockery was pointed firmly at the US.
Still, apart from the blatant stereotyping, this was a romp and fun, fun, fun diversion into imagining the impossible and then backing it up with science. Of course, we know now that the science was iffy, but it is conceivable that the readers in 1865 did not meet the book with our modern scepticism but with wonder and marvel. And I just love Verne's work for that. I would really love to know if anyone involved in space exploration was inspired by this book because I can totally see this being the case.
So, why not 5 stars?
The sheer amount of maths and hypothesising about maths and physics, was just too much for me.
Oh, and, the cat ate the squirrel. I'm just not ok with that.
Yup, this is still my favourite quote. Simply because I cannot get over Verne daring to imagine that iconic tv image from 1969 in 1865.
There were a lot fun points that Verne picked up in this novel and made fun of, but sadly a lot of the satire in this novel is at the expense of the US, who is pretty much represented only by the characters of the Baltimore Gun Club, who out of boredom following the end of the Civil War, attempt to build a cannon that can reach the moon.
I enjoyed the poking fun at gun enthusiasts, I did not enjoy the poking fun at whole nation. There were some other stereotypes, too, French and German, but the majority of Verne's mockery was pointed firmly at the US.
Still, apart from the blatant stereotyping, this was a romp and fun, fun, fun diversion into imagining the impossible and then backing it up with science. Of course, we know now that the science was iffy, but it is conceivable that the readers in 1865 did not meet the book with our modern scepticism but with wonder and marvel. And I just love Verne's work for that. I would really love to know if anyone involved in space exploration was inspired by this book because I can totally see this being the case.
So, why not 5 stars?
The sheer amount of maths and hypothesising about maths and physics, was just too much for me.
Oh, and, the cat ate the squirrel. I'm just not ok with that.
April 26, 2018
Secondo libro che leggo del Verne mondiale e direi, un passo indietro rispetto a "Viaggio al centro della Terra", forse pi霉 per la scrittura: qui l'ho trovata un po' troppo scarna (colpa, magari, anche della traduzione), ma comunque meno coinvolgente!
La prima parte del libro 猫 stata deludente, ero l矛 l矛 per abbandonarlo, ma poi non potevo farglielo al buon Jules e cos矛 ho continuato e meno male, perch猫 la parte centrale e finale meritano proprio. Ci sono ottimi spunti di riflessione, sia filosofica che scientifica, non approfonditi, ma che aprono la mente.
Insomma una mini-mezza-delusione, ma sempre una piacevole scoperta, soprattutto perch猫 scritta circa 150 anni fa dove, l'argomentazione del viaggio spaziale, nello specifico del viaggio sulla Luna, era ancora un'utopia. Bravo Verne!
La prima parte del libro 猫 stata deludente, ero l矛 l矛 per abbandonarlo, ma poi non potevo farglielo al buon Jules e cos矛 ho continuato e meno male, perch猫 la parte centrale e finale meritano proprio. Ci sono ottimi spunti di riflessione, sia filosofica che scientifica, non approfonditi, ma che aprono la mente.
Insomma una mini-mezza-delusione, ma sempre una piacevole scoperta, soprattutto perch猫 scritta circa 150 anni fa dove, l'argomentazione del viaggio spaziale, nello specifico del viaggio sulla Luna, era ancora un'utopia. Bravo Verne!
March 3, 2023
Why would any skeptical post Apollo 8 reader (the earliest NASA mission that most closely resembles the plot of this book) be bothered with a lunar exploration science fiction story written 158 years ago?
After the initial euphoria surrounding the success of the Apollo 11 had worn off, people the world over quickly lost interest in putting any more men on the moon. With the developments in space tourism, space travel is now almost routine.
At face value the plot of, 鈥淔rom the Earth to the Moon鈥�, appears to be old fashioned, technically infeasible and dangerously impracticable with little hope of success. The plan is for three men, seven chickens, and two dogs to embark on the conquest of the moon for the United States on board a giant projectile that has been blasted from a giant cannon packed with 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton producing 6 billion litres of gas.
To answer my own question however posed in the introduction, this terrific novel has much to offer the modern reader. It is a remarkably prophetic, satirical and adventurous science fiction masterpiece that is my favourite Verne novel to date.
鈥濃€he Moon鈥�, proved to be inspirational for a number of early rocket pioneers such as Robert Goddard - built the world鈥檚 first liquid-fuelled rocket; Herman Oberon - one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - published the first serious work on space travel, and Wernhner von Braun - developed the Nazi鈥檚 V2 rocket and was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.
Whist onboard Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong acknowledged Verne by making the following broadcast as he and the rest of the crew were getting ready to return to Earth after their successful moon landing -
鈥淎 hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to the moon. His spaceship, Columbia took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the moon. It seems appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the crew as the modern-day Columbia completes its rendezvous with the planet Earth in the same Pacific Ocean.鈥�
Verne鈥檚 countless hours spent at the National Library of France researching and writing about the latest scientific discoveries proved critical for his later laundry list of predictions that were to come true a century later. See below a selection:
- Just as Verne predicted there was fierce competition between Texas and Florida to host the modern space program. This was resolved by placing the Space Centre in Houston Texas and the rockets launch site in Cape Canaveral Florida.
- Brownsville Texas is listed by Verne as a potential launch site. SpaceX now have a launch facility at this same location.
- Both Verne鈥檚 projectile and the Apollo 8 capsule were built from aluminium to save weight.
- Verne鈥檚 projectile was approximately the same weight and dimensions as the Apollo 8.
- The giant cannon was built in a fictional location Verne named Stones Hill south of Tampa which is only 217 kilometres east of Cape Canaveral.
- The fictional projectile splashed down within 4 kilometres of the actual Apollo 8 splash down site in the Pacific.
- Verne鈥檚 projectile returned to earth December 12, Apollo 8 on December 27.
鈥�..Moon鈥�, helped to cement Verne鈥檚 reputation as one the most important and influential nineteenth century鈥榮 science fiction writers. Many contend that he is the father of science fiction. Verne himself however argues against this in the, 鈥�..Moon鈥�, when he references one his favourite writers Edgar Allen Poe鈥檚 novel, 鈥淭he Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall鈥�. Written thirty years earlier in 1835 it concerns Pfaall鈥檚 adventures when he travels to the moon in a balloon.
In conclusion von Braun succinctly sums up Verne鈥檚 impact on space travel -
鈥淭he science in, 鈥滷rom the Earth to the Moon鈥�, is nearly as accurate as the knowledge of the time permitted 鈥� He was read with great respect by working scientists, so carefully did he do his scientific homework鈥he debt modern astronauts owe (Verne) is apparent.鈥�
After the initial euphoria surrounding the success of the Apollo 11 had worn off, people the world over quickly lost interest in putting any more men on the moon. With the developments in space tourism, space travel is now almost routine.
At face value the plot of, 鈥淔rom the Earth to the Moon鈥�, appears to be old fashioned, technically infeasible and dangerously impracticable with little hope of success. The plan is for three men, seven chickens, and two dogs to embark on the conquest of the moon for the United States on board a giant projectile that has been blasted from a giant cannon packed with 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton producing 6 billion litres of gas.
To answer my own question however posed in the introduction, this terrific novel has much to offer the modern reader. It is a remarkably prophetic, satirical and adventurous science fiction masterpiece that is my favourite Verne novel to date.
鈥濃€he Moon鈥�, proved to be inspirational for a number of early rocket pioneers such as Robert Goddard - built the world鈥檚 first liquid-fuelled rocket; Herman Oberon - one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - published the first serious work on space travel, and Wernhner von Braun - developed the Nazi鈥檚 V2 rocket and was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.
Whist onboard Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong acknowledged Verne by making the following broadcast as he and the rest of the crew were getting ready to return to Earth after their successful moon landing -
鈥淎 hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to the moon. His spaceship, Columbia took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the moon. It seems appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the crew as the modern-day Columbia completes its rendezvous with the planet Earth in the same Pacific Ocean.鈥�
Verne鈥檚 countless hours spent at the National Library of France researching and writing about the latest scientific discoveries proved critical for his later laundry list of predictions that were to come true a century later. See below a selection:
- Just as Verne predicted there was fierce competition between Texas and Florida to host the modern space program. This was resolved by placing the Space Centre in Houston Texas and the rockets launch site in Cape Canaveral Florida.
- Brownsville Texas is listed by Verne as a potential launch site. SpaceX now have a launch facility at this same location.
- Both Verne鈥檚 projectile and the Apollo 8 capsule were built from aluminium to save weight.
- Verne鈥檚 projectile was approximately the same weight and dimensions as the Apollo 8.
- The giant cannon was built in a fictional location Verne named Stones Hill south of Tampa which is only 217 kilometres east of Cape Canaveral.
- The fictional projectile splashed down within 4 kilometres of the actual Apollo 8 splash down site in the Pacific.
- Verne鈥檚 projectile returned to earth December 12, Apollo 8 on December 27.
鈥�..Moon鈥�, helped to cement Verne鈥檚 reputation as one the most important and influential nineteenth century鈥榮 science fiction writers. Many contend that he is the father of science fiction. Verne himself however argues against this in the, 鈥�..Moon鈥�, when he references one his favourite writers Edgar Allen Poe鈥檚 novel, 鈥淭he Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall鈥�. Written thirty years earlier in 1835 it concerns Pfaall鈥檚 adventures when he travels to the moon in a balloon.
In conclusion von Braun succinctly sums up Verne鈥檚 impact on space travel -
鈥淭he science in, 鈥滷rom the Earth to the Moon鈥�, is nearly as accurate as the knowledge of the time permitted 鈥� He was read with great respect by working scientists, so carefully did he do his scientific homework鈥he debt modern astronauts owe (Verne) is apparent.鈥�
February 6, 2017
I'm not a fan of Jules Verne's writing, hence it was a bit difficult for me to complete this book. I'm just glad that somehow I did. Though there was a fair bit of skimming involved (like pages at times.)
There are a lot of good things I can say about this book like the entire concept of the Gun Club and the mission to send a projectile to Moon, some really sharp sarcastic observations that made me giggle every time I recalled them later on, a decent story overall and the feel-good factor. But there was the inescapable Verne writing that I have now come to dread that literally haunted me through the entire book, the excruciatingly slow pace of the story progression and the crazy level of Science involved for such a short read. Though the Science bit was actually quite impressive, I did not enjoy it at all.
I was hoping to finish this book in a few hours, but it took me more than 3 days to finish it. So you can guess why I gave this book a 2-star rating.
I'd recommend this book only to the hardcore fans of author Jules Verne and to no one else.
You can also read this review at .
There are a lot of good things I can say about this book like the entire concept of the Gun Club and the mission to send a projectile to Moon, some really sharp sarcastic observations that made me giggle every time I recalled them later on, a decent story overall and the feel-good factor. But there was the inescapable Verne writing that I have now come to dread that literally haunted me through the entire book, the excruciatingly slow pace of the story progression and the crazy level of Science involved for such a short read. Though the Science bit was actually quite impressive, I did not enjoy it at all.
I was hoping to finish this book in a few hours, but it took me more than 3 days to finish it. So you can guess why I gave this book a 2-star rating.
I'd recommend this book only to the hardcore fans of author Jules Verne and to no one else.
You can also read this review at .
July 29, 2018
Description: The War of the Rebellion is over, and the members of the American Gun Club, bored with inactivity, look around for a new project. At last they have it: 鈥淲e will build the greatest projectile the world has ever seen and make the moon our 38th state!鈥�
Read by: Bernard Mayes
February 20, 2021
Nors 沤iulis Vernas ir yra both sci-fi 啪anro t臈vas ir mokslo populiarinimo knyg懦 啪anro t臈vas, 拧i knyga nesusiklost臈 nei kaip viena, nei kaip kita. "Nuo 啪em臈s 寞 m臈nul寞" pasigirti gali nebent primityvoku siu啪etu, standartizuotais nacionaliniais stereotipais ir persona啪ais, kurie sukarikat奴rinti iki absurdo.
Kaip 啪mogui, para拧iusiam "Kapitona Grant膮", "Paslapting膮j膮 sal膮" ar "20k myli懦" - labai silpna. 2*.
Kaip 啪mogui, para拧iusiam "Kapitona Grant膮", "Paslapting膮j膮 sal膮" ar "20k myli懦" - labai silpna. 2*.
March 15, 2024
More of a checklist than a solid story.
The members of a Gun Club in Baltimore are bored of peacetime in America. Until an entrepeneur offers them a new project: let鈥檚 shoot something to the moon. So they plan, build, overcome setbacks, deal with the public, some controversy, and some spectacle.
The reading of the chapter names in the contents may have been enough to get the gist of the plot and language, which unfortunately was stale. It felt like listening to a pitch and them figuring out how to do it. Kind of similar in style to Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Almost everything the leader said was applauded without opposition except once for a mini-plot mix up.
To demonstrate the point, here are the first four chapter names:
鈥楾he Gun Club鈥�, 鈥楶resident Barbicane鈥檚 Communication鈥�, 鈥楨ffect of the President鈥檚 Communication鈥�, 鈥楻eply From the Observatory of Cambridge鈥�. Bored yet? I was.
I鈥檝e read other books by this author and they were far better. Having said that, I quickly had a look at my ratings and they were 3 & 3 so perhaps Verne doesn鈥檛 do it for me afterall despite writing such memorable pieces of work. Or maybe the rest of the books in this series are more interesting now that the set up is over? Either way, at least he writes memorable stories. Hmmm.
The members of a Gun Club in Baltimore are bored of peacetime in America. Until an entrepeneur offers them a new project: let鈥檚 shoot something to the moon. So they plan, build, overcome setbacks, deal with the public, some controversy, and some spectacle.
The reading of the chapter names in the contents may have been enough to get the gist of the plot and language, which unfortunately was stale. It felt like listening to a pitch and them figuring out how to do it. Kind of similar in style to Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Almost everything the leader said was applauded without opposition except once for a mini-plot mix up.
To demonstrate the point, here are the first four chapter names:
鈥楾he Gun Club鈥�, 鈥楶resident Barbicane鈥檚 Communication鈥�, 鈥楨ffect of the President鈥檚 Communication鈥�, 鈥楻eply From the Observatory of Cambridge鈥�. Bored yet? I was.
I鈥檝e read other books by this author and they were far better. Having said that, I quickly had a look at my ratings and they were 3 & 3 so perhaps Verne doesn鈥檛 do it for me afterall despite writing such memorable pieces of work. Or maybe the rest of the books in this series are more interesting now that the set up is over? Either way, at least he writes memorable stories. Hmmm.
April 24, 2009
Whoa, thank goodness I didn't read the back cover of the book, or else several fun surprises would be spoiled.
Holy Verne, it's been so long since my last fix of his work. Two years perhaps. From the Earth to the Moon is light but still well written. This book was published in 1865, more than a hundred years (!) prior to the first successful moon landing by the men of Apollo 11.
I'm not able to prove all the scientific calculation and details described so eloquently here, but they're sure as hell convincing enough. Again, Verne never ceases to amaze me with his knack of making technical details to be interesting.
He actually made some correct predictions, such as:
1. the country who successfully sent a manned mission to the moon is the US. Well, he did manage to include a French guy to join the mission - nationalistic interest perhaps?
2. the two states contesting to be the launch site were Florida and Texas. Yep, and Florida won too in real life.
3. the shape of the capsule and there were three people on board. Remember Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
Verne did see far into the future. And he complemented all of those with wisecracking humor in between. Je vous adore beaucoup, monsieur!
Distance is an empty word, distance does not exist!
Believe in the power of imagination and let it flow, because you'll never know what the future holds.
Holy Verne, it's been so long since my last fix of his work. Two years perhaps. From the Earth to the Moon is light but still well written. This book was published in 1865, more than a hundred years (!) prior to the first successful moon landing by the men of Apollo 11.
I'm not able to prove all the scientific calculation and details described so eloquently here, but they're sure as hell convincing enough. Again, Verne never ceases to amaze me with his knack of making technical details to be interesting.
He actually made some correct predictions, such as:
1. the country who successfully sent a manned mission to the moon is the US. Well, he did manage to include a French guy to join the mission - nationalistic interest perhaps?
2. the two states contesting to be the launch site were Florida and Texas. Yep, and Florida won too in real life.
3. the shape of the capsule and there were three people on board. Remember Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
Verne did see far into the future. And he complemented all of those with wisecracking humor in between. Je vous adore beaucoup, monsieur!
Distance is an empty word, distance does not exist!
Believe in the power of imagination and let it flow, because you'll never know what the future holds.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 5, 2023
螘未蠋 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 苇谓伪 蟽蟿慰委蠂畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 慰 螔蔚蟻谓 苇蠂伪蟽蔚. 螤伪蟻维 蟿慰 蠈蟿喂 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏维 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓, 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿喂蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺蟿蠋蟽蔚喂蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰 蠈蟻伪渭维 蟿慰蠀 胃伪 慰未畏纬慰蠉蟽蔚 蟽蔚... 位喂蠋蟽喂渭慰 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚蟺喂尾维蟿蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀 尾位萎渭伪蟿慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 魏伪蟿蔚蠀胃蠉谓蔚蟿伪喂 蟺蟻慰蟼 蟿畏 蟽蔚位萎谓畏. 螚 伪位萎胃蔚喂伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈蟿喂 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟽蟿伪胃蔚蟻萎 蠋蟽畏, 纬喂伪 谓伪 蔚蟺喂蟿蔚蠀蠂胃蔚委 畏 蟿伪蠂蠉蟿畏蟿伪 未喂伪蠁蠀纬萎蟼 蟽蟿慰 未喂维蟽蟿畏渭伪 慰喂 蔚蟺喂尾伪委谓慰谓蟿蔚蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰 蠈蟺慰喂慰蠀 慰蠂萎渭伪蟿慰蟼 胃伪 纬委谓慰谓蟿伪谓 蟺慰蠀蟻苇蟼/尾喂慰渭维味伪 蟽蟿慰 魏维蟿蠅 渭苇蟻慰蟼.
惟蟽蟿蠈蟽慰, 蟿慰 伪蟺慰位伪蠉蟽伪渭蔚 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂委味慰蠀渭蔚 谓伪 蟿慰 伪蟺慰位伪渭尾维谓慰蠀渭蔚, 蔚喂未喂魏维 渭蔚 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻喂蟿蠅渭苇谓慰 twist 渭蔚 蟿伪 渭伪胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟽蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼. ;)
惟蟽蟿蠈蟽慰, 蟿慰 伪蟺慰位伪蠉蟽伪渭蔚 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂委味慰蠀渭蔚 谓伪 蟿慰 伪蟺慰位伪渭尾维谓慰蠀渭蔚, 蔚喂未喂魏维 渭蔚 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻喂蟿蠅渭苇谓慰 twist 渭蔚 蟿伪 渭伪胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟽蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼. ;)
April 23, 2020
One of the similarities from the book (1865) to what actually happened later
One example:
Excerpt from wikipedia:
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17.
One example:
Excerpt from wikipedia:
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17.
September 25, 2019
爻賮乇 亘賴 賲丕賴貙 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 卮丕賴讴丕乇賴丕蹖 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 丕爻鬲 趩乇丕 讴賴 丕賵 賯亘賱 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴賴 亘卮乇 賲賵賮賯 亘賴 爻賮乇 亘賴 賲丕賴 卮賵丿貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屫ж池�. 丕夭 丌賳 夭賲丕賳 讴賴 丕賳爻丕賳 賲丕賴 乇丕 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 讴乇賴鈥屫й� 丿蹖诏乇 卮賳丕禺鬲貙 丌乇夭賵蹖 倬乇賵丕夭 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘丕 丌乇夭賵蹖 丿爻鬲蹖丕亘蹖 亘賴 鬲賳賴丕 賯賲乇 夭賲蹖賳 毓噩蹖賳 爻丕禺鬲 丕賲丕 爻丕賱鈥屬囏й� 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 賳蹖丕夭 亘賵丿. 丨鬲蹖 丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 禺賵丿 丕賳爻丕賳 乇丕 亘賴 賲丕賴 乇爻丕賳丿 賳蹖夭 賲丿鬲鈥屬囏� 诏匕卮鬲 鬲丕 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 丕蹖賳 乇丐蹖丕蹖 丕賳爻丕賳 亘賴 丨賯蹖賯鬲 倬蹖賵爻鬲.
賳讴丕鬲 賯丕亘賱 鬲賵噩賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘
爻丕賱 趩丕倬 讴鬲丕亘 : 郾鄹鄱鄣
爻丕賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丌倬賵賱賵郾郾 : 郾酃鄱酃
丕卮禺丕氐蹖 讴賴 丿乇 爻賮蹖賳賴鈥屰� 讴鬲丕亘 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 亘賵丿賳丿: 亘丕乇亘蹖讴賳貙 賳蹖讴賵賱 賵 賲蹖卮賱 丌乇丿賳
丕卮禺丕氐蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌倬賵賱賵 郾郾 亘賵丿賳丿:
賳蹖賱 丌乇賲爻鬲乇丕賳诏貙 丌賱丿乇蹖賳貙 賲丕蹖讴賱 讴丕賱蹖賳夭
賲丨賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 : 賮賱賵乇蹖丿丕 丌賲乇蹖讴丕
賲丨賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丿乇 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲: 賮賱賵乇蹖丿丕 丌賲乇蹖讴丕
賲丨賱 爻賯賵胤 爻賮蹖賳賴 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 : 丕賯蹖丕賳賵爻 丌乇丕賲
賲丨賱 爻賯賵胤 爻賮蹖賳賴 丿乇 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲: 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕 賳夭丿蹖讴 亘賴 賴賲丕賳 賲丨賱蹖 讴賴 爻賮蹖賳賴 賵乇賳 爻賯賵胤 讴乇丿!
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 亘丕蹖丿 禺賵丿鬲賵賳 賲胤丕賱毓賴 讴賳蹖丿 鬲丕 倬蹖 亘賴 賯丿乇鬲 鬲禺蹖賱 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘夭乇诏 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖 亘亘乇蹖丿
丕賳诏丕乇 讴賴 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 夭賳丿賴 亘賵丿賴 賵 丕蹖賳 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 賵 亘賴 趩卮賲丕賳 禺賵丿卮 丿蹖丿賴 賵 亘賴 乇卮鬲賴 鬲丨乇蹖乇 丿乇 丌賵乇丿賴! 趩乇丕 讴賴 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 乇賵蹖 丿丕丿賴 丿乇 丿丕禺賱 爻賮蹖賳賴 賵 禺丕乇噩 丕夭 爻賮蹖賳賴 卮亘丕賴鬲鈥屬囏й屰� 亘爻蹖丕乇 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 丿丕卮鬲賴!
賳讴丕鬲 賯丕亘賱 鬲賵噩賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘
爻丕賱 趩丕倬 讴鬲丕亘 : 郾鄹鄱鄣
爻丕賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丌倬賵賱賵郾郾 : 郾酃鄱酃
丕卮禺丕氐蹖 讴賴 丿乇 爻賮蹖賳賴鈥屰� 讴鬲丕亘 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 亘賵丿賳丿: 亘丕乇亘蹖讴賳貙 賳蹖讴賵賱 賵 賲蹖卮賱 丌乇丿賳
丕卮禺丕氐蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌倬賵賱賵 郾郾 亘賵丿賳丿:
賳蹖賱 丌乇賲爻鬲乇丕賳诏貙 丌賱丿乇蹖賳貙 賲丕蹖讴賱 讴丕賱蹖賳夭
賲丨賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 : 賮賱賵乇蹖丿丕 丌賲乇蹖讴丕
賲丨賱 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 丿乇 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲: 賮賱賵乇蹖丿丕 丌賲乇蹖讴丕
賲丨賱 爻賯賵胤 爻賮蹖賳賴 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 : 丕賯蹖丕賳賵爻 丌乇丕賲
賲丨賱 爻賯賵胤 爻賮蹖賳賴 丿乇 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲: 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕 賳夭丿蹖讴 亘賴 賴賲丕賳 賲丨賱蹖 讴賴 爻賮蹖賳賴 賵乇賳 爻賯賵胤 讴乇丿!
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 亘丕蹖丿 禺賵丿鬲賵賳 賲胤丕賱毓賴 讴賳蹖丿 鬲丕 倬蹖 亘賴 賯丿乇鬲 鬲禺蹖賱 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘夭乇诏 賮乇丕賳爻賵蹖 亘亘乇蹖丿
丕賳诏丕乇 讴賴 跇賵賱 賵乇賳 夭賳丿賴 亘賵丿賴 賵 丕蹖賳 毓賲賱蹖丕鬲 賵 亘賴 趩卮賲丕賳 禺賵丿卮 丿蹖丿賴 賵 亘賴 乇卮鬲賴 鬲丨乇蹖乇 丿乇 丌賵乇丿賴! 趩乇丕 讴賴 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 乇賵蹖 丿丕丿賴 丿乇 丿丕禺賱 爻賮蹖賳賴 賵 禺丕乇噩 丕夭 爻賮蹖賳賴 卮亘丕賴鬲鈥屬囏й屰� 亘爻蹖丕乇 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 丿丕卮鬲賴!
February 1, 2019
"Those three men have carried into space all the resources of art, science, and industry. With that, one can do anything...鈥�
Though humorous and outlandish at times, this must have been an inspiration for generations to come.
December 12, 2018
Audiobook #244
June 17, 2015
There鈥檚 a reason From the Earth to the Moon isn鈥檛 listed among Jules Verne鈥檚 most popular works. It鈥檚 terrible. It鈥檚 not that the science and technical aspects are laughable (that鈥檚 not unexpected given the book was written a century before the NASA program put a man on the moon), but that the story itself is dumb.
Basically, the plot involves shooting a 9 foot hollow aluminum bullet from a cannon so that it escapes the Earth鈥檚 gravitational pull and ultimately collides with the moon. The bullet is hollow and carries a passenger along with a rifle (in case he needs to defend himself from moon-men) and some seeds so he can grow some crops on the moon when he arrives. One might forgive Verne his naivet茅, but these ideas would have been considered absurd even in 1865.
The worst part, however, is that the bulk of the book is a bore, consisting of an endless discussion of the technical aspects of this ridiculous plan. The materials, the propellant, the location from which the gun must be fired, the angle, and financing are all covered in minute and unnecessary detail leaving the actual firing of the gun to the final chapters. And even though the book has been building to this supposed climax ... the conclusion is also just another disappointment.
May 24, 2020
螒谓 蟽慰蠀 伪蟻苇蟽蔚喂 畏 蠁蠀蟽喂魏萎, 畏 蠂畏渭蔚委伪, 蟿伪 渭伪胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿苇位蔚喂伪 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 伪位位维 未蔚谓 蔚委渭伪喂 位维蟿蟻畏蟼 慰蟺蠈蟿蔚 魏伪喂 未蔚谓 蔚蠀蠂伪蟻喂蟽蟿萎胃畏魏伪 蟿畏谓 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪! 螘蟺委蟽畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿蠈蟽蔚蟼 蠀蟺慰蟽畏渭蔚喂蠋蟽蔚喂蟼 蟺慰蠀 蔚蠁蟿维蟽伪谓 蟽蔚 蟽畏渭蔚委慰 伪纬伪谓维魏蟿畏蟽畏蟼.
If you like physics, chemistry and mathematics it's the perfect story for you but I'm not a fan of this subjects so I didn't enjoy this story! Also my edition had so many footnotes that it frustrated me!
If you like physics, chemistry and mathematics it's the perfect story for you but I'm not a fan of this subjects so I didn't enjoy this story! Also my edition had so many footnotes that it frustrated me!
April 29, 2021
A story that takes 362 pages to take off.
December 30, 2021
I either end up really enjoying Jules Verne's books or feeling rather underwhelmed by them? The premise always draws me in but the content don't always end up being as exciting. They are well written but my mind tends to wander around while reading. But when I read a winner by him it's all worth the dudds. However this wasn't a winner. But I'll keep trying
June 2, 2021
Amazing. Reading Verne is so fun! You always get the right amount of adventure, imagination, craziness and criticism. From the Earth to the Moon is no exception. The plot could've failed so easy, since it is full of data, numbers, lists and what anyone could categorized as boring, but the author wants you to be entertain and I was the entire time. It is impressive how fast I got into the novel. A visionary man with great ideas that illuminated our present.
Verne es extra帽amente entretenido y muy propio. Incluso para insultar tiene elegancia.
De la Tierra a la Luna es muy interesante si en verdad quieres saber c贸mo una persona de 1800s cre铆a que se pod铆a llegar a la Luna y lo que se pensaba de ella en ese entonces, ya que te topas con listas, cap铆tulos enteros centrados en la log铆stica de lo que ser谩 el viaje y comentarios constantes sobre los 鈥渉abitantes de la Luna鈥�. De alguna manera lo disfrut茅, las descripciones son sencillas, no te revuelve y cuando menos te lo esperas ya se termin贸. El autor no solo era un visionario sino que era un incre铆ble contador de historias, por eso un libro tan t茅cnico como este no aburre.
No se puede negar la clara cr铆tica a la adoraci贸n que sienten los americanos por las guerras (ganadas), si lo hace bien o mal ya es a consideraci贸n personal, yo creo que a partes iguales se burla y lo cuestiona, perfeccionar las armas b茅licas, consideradas como instrumentos de civilizaci贸n. Y a decir verdad, la transici贸n de esta cr铆tica a historia de aventuras es perfecta aunque tarde en llegar.
"Y sin embargo lo que pretend铆an era enviarle un proyectil, manera bastante brutal de entrar en relaciones, aunque sea con un sat茅lite, pero muy utilizada por las naciones civilizadas. "
El final es bastante incre铆ble, para nada lo que me esperaba y por supuesto hay continuaci贸n, pero les digo, si acabara as铆 yo estar铆a feliz e impresionada.
Verne es extra帽amente entretenido y muy propio. Incluso para insultar tiene elegancia.
De la Tierra a la Luna es muy interesante si en verdad quieres saber c贸mo una persona de 1800s cre铆a que se pod铆a llegar a la Luna y lo que se pensaba de ella en ese entonces, ya que te topas con listas, cap铆tulos enteros centrados en la log铆stica de lo que ser谩 el viaje y comentarios constantes sobre los 鈥渉abitantes de la Luna鈥�. De alguna manera lo disfrut茅, las descripciones son sencillas, no te revuelve y cuando menos te lo esperas ya se termin贸. El autor no solo era un visionario sino que era un incre铆ble contador de historias, por eso un libro tan t茅cnico como este no aburre.
No se puede negar la clara cr铆tica a la adoraci贸n que sienten los americanos por las guerras (ganadas), si lo hace bien o mal ya es a consideraci贸n personal, yo creo que a partes iguales se burla y lo cuestiona, perfeccionar las armas b茅licas, consideradas como instrumentos de civilizaci贸n. Y a decir verdad, la transici贸n de esta cr铆tica a historia de aventuras es perfecta aunque tarde en llegar.
"Y sin embargo lo que pretend铆an era enviarle un proyectil, manera bastante brutal de entrar en relaciones, aunque sea con un sat茅lite, pero muy utilizada por las naciones civilizadas. "
El final es bastante incre铆ble, para nada lo que me esperaba y por supuesto hay continuaci贸n, pero les digo, si acabara as铆 yo estar铆a feliz e impresionada.
June 1, 2022
Los nombres de Nicholl, de Barbicane y de Michel Ardan deber谩n, pues, ser siempre c茅lebres en los fastos astron贸micos, porque estos atrevidos exploradores, deseando ensanchar el c铆rculo de los conocimientos humanos, atravesaron audazmente el espacio y se jugaron la vida en la m谩s sorprendente tentativa de los tiempos modernos.
Si Julio Verne hubiera tenido una bola de cristal para ver el futuro, no lo habr铆a adivinado con tanto acierto. Es incre铆ble la cantidad de coincidencias entre las aventuras descritas en "De la Tierra a la Luna" y la misi贸n espacial "Apollo XI", o tal vez, tanto influy贸 la literatura de Verne en la imaginaci贸n de la humanidad que consigui贸 que la realidad se amoldara a sus creaciones literarias.
A parte de ser una obra eminentemente cient铆fica, donde Verne exhibe sus conocimientos en ciencia y tecnolog铆a, es tambi茅n una obra sat铆rica (los primeros cap铆tulos con la fundaci贸n del Gun Club y las ocupaciones de sus miembros no tiene precio, para morirse de risa).
Adem谩s de todas las serendipias cient铆ficas y tecnol贸gicas, en esta obra tambi茅n nos encontramos con un "crowdfunding" pionero para financiar los gastos del proyecto, en el cual, por cierto, ya los espa帽oles d谩bamos muestras de nuestra pobre inversi贸n en I+D+I, con la m铆sera aportaci贸n de 150 reales. Hasta en eso Verne era visionario, jajaja.
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