Round the Moon E-Book

Jules Verne.

• Herausgeber: Jules Verne
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune, 1870), Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the moon which was only partially described in the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It.

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Round the Moon

A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne

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Preliminary Chapter

Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M.

The First Half-Hour

Their Place of Shelter

A Little Algebra

The Cold of Space

Question and Answer

A Moment of Intoxication

At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues

The Consequences of a Deviation

The Observers of the Moon

Fancy and Reality

Orographic Details

Lunar Landscapes

The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and a Half

Hyperbola or Parabola

The Southern Hemisphere

Tycho

Grave Questions

A Struggle Against the Impossible

The Soundings of the Susquehanna

J. T. Maston Recalled

Recovered from the Sea

The End

Preliminary Chapter

The First Part of this Work, and Serving as a Preface to the Second

During the year 186-, the whole world was greatly excited by a scientific experiment unprecedented in the annals of science. The members of the Gun Club, a circle of artillerymen formed at Baltimore after the American war, conceived the idea of putting themselves in communication with the moon! — yes, with the moon — by sending to her a projectile. Their president, Barbicane, the promoter of the enterprise, having consulted the astronomers of the Cambridge Observatory upon the subject, took all necessary means to ensure the success of this extraordinary enterprise, which had been declared practicable by the majority of competent judges. After setting on foot a public subscription, which realized nearly £1,200,000, they began the gigantic work.

According to the advice forwarded from the members of the Observatory, the gun destined to launch the projectile had to be fixed in a country situated between the 0 and 28th degrees of north or south latitude, in order to aim at the moon when at the zenith; and its initiatory velocity was fixed at twelve thousand yards to the second. Launched on the 1st of December, at 10hrs. 46m. 40s. P.M., it ought to reach the moon four days after its departure, that is on the 5th of December, at midnight precisely, at the moment of her attaining her perigee, that is her nearest distance from the earth, which is exactly 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles mean distance (English).