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 …
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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 human 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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From the Earth to the Moon
185 pages
English language
Published May 1, 1993
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- 978-0-553-21420-8Copied ISBN!
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From the Earth to the Moon
196 pages
English language
Published Feb. 23, 2013
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- 978-1-4826-0900-4Copied ISBN!
Around the World In Eighty Days; From the Earth to the Moon; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
592 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1978
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- 978-0-7064-0784-6Copied ISBN!
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- 438646
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon
448 pages
English language
Published May 1, 2011
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- 978-1-84022-670-6Copied ISBN!
Dalla Terra alla Luna
174 pages
English language
Published Oct. 4, 2016
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- 978-1-5393-3047-9Copied ISBN!
De la Terre à la Lune
252 pages
French language
Published May 1, 1995
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- 978-2-87714-299-1Copied ISBN!
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- 3059398
From the Earth to the Moon
English language
Published Nov. 16, 2016
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- 978-1-4400-6034-2Copied ISBN!
From the earth to the moon
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2011
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- 978-0-307-78516-9Copied ISBN!
From the Earth to the Moon
English language
Published May 1, 2003
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- 978-1-55576-181-3Copied ISBN!
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- 795377
De La Terre a La Lune/Autour De La Lune (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (French Edition)
458 pages
French language
Published Sept. 30, 1978 by Flammarion.
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- 978-2-08-070305-7Copied ISBN!
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- 3059386
Från jorden till månen
282 pages
Swedish language
Published May 1, 2003 by Rabén & Sjögren.
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- 978-91-29-65904-7Copied ISBN!
De la Terre à la Lune
290 pages
French language
Published Oct. 1, 1998 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-051435-9Copied ISBN!
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Från jorden till månen
320 pages
Swedish language
Published May 1, 1979 by Niloé.
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- 978-91-7102-003-1Copied ISBN!
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