Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) 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. 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 Félix Nadar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kore Enterprises
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788829557462
• Artikelnr.: 54638701

Autorenporträt

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Romane "Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde", "20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer" sowie "Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen". Neben Hugo Gernsback, Kurd Laßwitz und H. G. Wells gilt Jules Verne als einer der Begründer der Science-Fiction-Literatur.

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