Jules Verne first published From The Earth to the Moon, or De la Terre à la Lune, in 1865, pre-dating our first real visit to our lunar neighbor by over 100 years. It involves a post -American Civil ...

From the Earth to the Moon is a 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 ...

Jules Verne, Author, Sydney Kravitz, Translator, Arthur B. Evans, Editor Wesleyan University Press $40 (728p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6475-7 The second title in Wesleyan's new Early Classics of Science ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "From the Earth to the Moon + Around the Moon" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. From the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Renowned French novelist Jules Verne of the late-19th century once wrote: “(M)y task is to paint the whole earth, the entire world, in novel form, by imagining adventures …” As vacation begins, ...

In the recent weight vs. weightlessness post, there was an interesting comment. Michael Maher asks: My question is this: What forces did the astronauts experience as they were in transit to the moon?

Ask an Englishman to name a French writer of science fiction and he is likely to answer: Jules Verne (ask him to name another French writer of science fiction and he'll probably go 'that guy who wrote ...