The Annotated Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Gramercy Books
Published: 1995-12
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780517148334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Gramercy Books
Published: 1995-12
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780517148334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jules Verne
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-13
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"From the Earth to the Moon" is a novel by Jules Verne, telling 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 to send to the Moon. Three people have to be on board - the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet. The book is notable for Verne's attempt to do rough calculations, and some of the figures were remarkably accurate.
Author: Jules Verne
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Published: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (French: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) 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-the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet-in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.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"
Author: Jules Verne
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Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes 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, ...
Author: Jules Verne
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Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 315
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the legendary novel of technological speculation and social satire that launched an entire genre of adventure fiction: Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon is the first story of space exploration and remains a beloved work of daring exploits-and surprisingly accurate scientific conjecture. When the members of the Baltimore Gun Club-bored Civil War veterans-decide to fill their time by embarking on a project to shoot themselves to the moon, the race is on to raise money, overcome engineering challenges, and convince detractors that they're anything but "Lunatics." With this work, Verne inspired the first science fiction film, 1902's Le Voyage dans la lune, and accurately predicted that that ideal location for a space base is in Florida.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016860871
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