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Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

With ​an Introduction and Notes by Alex Dolby. JULES VERNE (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages. His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility an engineering dream for the industrial age. Directly inspired by Verne s story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously, however, Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon, rising higher than the Moon, swinging around it, and then landing safely back on Earth. He had used the… (tovább)

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326 oldal · ASIN: B00JVVS9Q6
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Wordsworth, London, 2011
448 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781840226706
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426 oldal · keménytáblás · ASIN: B001K91RUM

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