| Title | : | From the Earth to the Moon |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1598184547 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781598184549 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1865 |
From the Earth to the Moon Reviews
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De la Terre à la Lune = From the Earth to the Moon (Extraordinary Voyages #4), Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon 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.
عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «مسافرت به ماه»؛ «از زمین تا کره ماه»؛ «سفر به کره ماه»؛ «سفر به ماه»؛ «گردش به دور کره ماه»؛ «مسافرت از زمین به کره ماه»؛ «مسافرت به کره ماه»؛ «دور ماه»، نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ انتشاراتیها: (عطائی، بنگاه ترجمه و نشر کتاب، علمی فرهنگی؛ گلشائی؛ فروغی، توسن، عارف، کوشش، توسعه کتابخانه های ایران، سپیده، میلکان، و ...)؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: یکی از روزهای سال1970میلادی
عنوان: از زمین تا کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: حدادی؛ تهران، عطائی، سال1337؛ در136ص؛ موضوع: داستانهای علمی تخیلی از نویسندگان فرانسه - سده 19م
عنوان: مسافرت به ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم اردشیر نیکپور؛ تهران، بنگاه ترجمه و نشر کتاب، سال1340؛ در309ص؛ بارها چاپ شده؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، علمی فرهنگی، سال1387؛ در هفده و280ص، شابک9789644459023؛ چاپ چهارم علمی فرهنگی سال1393؛
عنوان: مسافرت به کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: محمدرضا امینی؛ تهران، گلشائی، سال1362؛ در111ص؛
عنوان: مسافرت از زمین به کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: عنایت الله شکیباپور؛ تهران، فروغی، سال1369؛ در280ص؛
عنوان: سفر به کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: سهیلا احمدی؛ تهران، توسن، سال1363؛ در112ص؛
عنوان: گردش به دور کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: محسن آزادی؛ تهران، توسن، سال1363؛ در213ص؛ چاپهای دیگر با شابک9646282156؛
عنوان: سفر به کره ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: قدیر گلکاریان؛ تهران، عارف، سال1370؛ در128ص؛
عنوان: سفر به ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: فاطمه نقاش؛ تهران، کوشش، سال1375؛ در112ص؛
عنوان: سفر به ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: حسین چترنور؛ تهران، توسعه کتابخانه های ایران، سال1376؛ در123ص؛ چاپ سوم سال1380؛ چهارم سال1381؛ ششم سال1384؛ شابک9648209181؛
عنوان: سفر به ماه، مترجم: خسرو شایسته؛ تهران، سپیده، چاپ ششم سال1370، در157ص؛
عنوان: سفر به ماه؛ نویسنده: ژول ورن؛ مترجم: محبوبه موسوی؛ تهران، میلکان، سال1393؛ در210ص؛ شابک9786007443941؛
این کتاب با عنوان «دور ماه» نیز چاپ شده است
فهرست کتاب: «باشگاه اسلحه»؛ «طرح پرزیدنت باربیکن»؛ «کاپیتان نیکول و اشکالات»؛ «پوکه»، «توپ را کجا باید کار گذاشت»؛ «ساختن توپ غول پیکر»؛ «توپ خنک میشود»؛ «تلگرام»؛ «میشل آردن میآید»؛ «من هم میروم»؛ «ساختمان پوکه»، «درون پوکه»؛ «پوکه را درون توپ میگذارند»؛ «توپ شلیک میشود»؛ «گمشده»، «داخل پوکه چه میگذرد»؛ «بعد از شلیک توپ»؛ «دوم دسامبر»، «سوم دسامبر»؛ «گور فضایی»؛ «نیمه شب پنجم دسامبر»؛ «شمال ماه»، «جنوب ماه»؛ «خسوف»، «سقوط بزرگ»؛ «آنها برمیگردند»؛ «آنها برگشته اند»؛ «عملیات نجات»؛ «جلسه اعضای باشگاه اسلحه»؛
چکیده داستان: زمان: سال1865میلادی؛ مکان: «آمریکا»، ایالت «مریلند»، شهر «بالتیمور»؛
باشگاه «گان (باشگاه توپچیهای بالتیمور)»، باشگاهی بود، که در زمان جنگ، برای کشورِ «آمریکا»، توپ و گلوله تهیه میکرد؛ در پایان جنگ انفصال (جدایی)، در «آمریکا»، کار باشگاه نیز، به اتمام رسیده بود، و هر کدام از مسئولان آن، در پی کاری دیگر بودند؛ «ایمی باربیکن»، رئیس باشگاه «گان»، پیشنهادی داد که همه از شنیدن آن، هیجان زده شدند؛ اعضای باشگاه، طبق پیشنهاد او تصمیم میگیرند، که به وسیله یک گلوله ی بزرگ آلومینیومی، که از یک توپ عظیم به طول نهصد پا، پرتاب میشود، با کره ی ماه ارتباط برقرار کنند!؛
قرار میشود گلوله، در تاریخ روز نخست ماه «دسامبر»، سیزده دقیقه مانده به ساعت یازده، پرتاب شود، و طبق محاسبات، چهار روز پس از پرتاب به ماه خواهد رسید؛ «میشل آردن فرانسوی (مردی خودساخته ولی نه مجرب، که همه چیز را بزرگ میبیند، مگر آدمیان و دشواریها را)» درخواست میکند، که در درون این گلوله، به ماه برود؛ «باربیکن»، رئیس «گان کلاب»، و دشمن خونی «میشل آردن»، که اکنون با او آشتی کرده است، و سروان «نیکول»، که یقین دارد، که اینکار به ثمر نخواهد رسید، با او همسفر میشوند؛ گلوله، که کاملترین ابزارهای علمی را، در خود دارد، و مجهز ��ده است، در یک شب مهتابی، در حضور هزاران نفر، سفر خود را آغاز میکند؛ «بلفوست»، مدیر رصدخانه «کمبریج»، و «ماستون»، دبیر «گان کلاب»، این سفر فضایی را، با تلسکوپ عظیمی، در «لانگز پیک»، روی کوههای صخره ای، دنبال میکنند …؛
سفر به ماه، رمانی پر از رویداد اثر «ژول ورن»، داستان نویس نامدار «فرانسوی» است، که نخستین بار در سال1865میلادی منتشر شد؛ «ژول ورن»، تعدادی از موفقترین شخصیتهایش، یعنی «باربیکنِ» مبادی آداب، «نیکولِ» تندخو، و «آردنِ» سرخوش را، در این کتاب گرد هم آورده اند؛ این کتاب، بیش از دیگر آثار «ژول ورن»، از طنزی برخوردار است، که به این ماجرای دیوانه وار، رنگی از راستی میزند؛ از آن زمان که انسان ماه را، به عنوان کره ای دیگر شناخت، آرزوی پرواز خود را، با آرزوی دستیابی به تنها قمر زمین، عجین ساخت؛ اما سال‌های بسیاری نیاز بود بگذرد؛ حتی از زمانی که «ژول ورن» در داستان خود، انسان را به ماه رساند نیز، مدت‌ها گذشت، تا بالاخره این رویای انسانی «ژول ورن» لباس راستین پوشید
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 01/11/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 28/08/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی -
Una novela liviana, fácil de entender, rápida y entretenida. Me gustó mucho lo detallado que es Verne para dar las explicaciones del proyectil (Distancia, peso, materiales, etc). Todo con base y argumento. Con esto, me dieron ganas de aprender más sobre física y cosas acerca de proyectiles que no sé absolutamente nada. Después de haber leído esto, seré un poco más científico para mis cosas.
Libro totalmente recomendable, amigable y liviano. Me gustó. -
★★★✬☆ 3.5 Stars
Alright, Kids. Let's start by catching some reel from Back To the Future III:
Clara Clayton: Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon like we travel across the country on trains?
Doc: Definitely, although not for another eighty-four years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles, capsules to sail off in rockets, devices that create giant explosions, explosions that are so powerful that they...
Clara Clayton: [finishes Doc's sentence] "They break the pull of the earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space."
[Doc stares at her in shock. Clara laughs]
Clara Clayton: Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon".
Jules Verne wrote "From Earth to Moon" in 1865, a century before the actual small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. In his novel, Verne introduces the Baltimore Gun Club, a group of Gun enthusiasts with a wide membership and an unquenchable thirst for action, yet they find themselves without a war to fight and nothing notable to occupy them.
Not for long.
When Impey Barbicane, the president of the club reveals his plans to create a gun long enough and strong enough to launch an expedition to the moon, the whole world is captivated by his dream. Calculations are made, locations are scouted, and days are marked. Will they be able to pull it off?
If you take a step back and look at the story, you'll see that It's about a bunch of gun-crazed adventure-loving Americans constructing a big ass gun, so that they can literally shoot for the moon... with a bullet.
Only when you take a closer look, you'll see the beauty of Verne's work. Yes, there are pages of mostly outdated 20th-century science dump, along with some shockingly accurate predictions and calculations. Also, there are pages of minute details like amount of money collected from each county for the project and list of banks participated, which probably is weird for a modern reader.
BUT when you put those pages behind you, you'll find a story filled with humor, courage and UTTER LUNACY!
Some of the best parts were
At the end of the day, From Earth to Moon is a bumpy and a fun ride. Apart from that, the novel's historical value is tremendous: To bring equilibrium to the
Wikipedia article which describes with many points why Verne's expedition won't work, there is a
NASA page which showcases the predictions of Verne that came to fruition!
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From the Earth to the Moon was written almost 100 years before man finally stepped foot on the moon, a mixture of early sci-fi and adventure book that has truly imaginative elements alongside Jules Verne's very scientific mind.
In an America that is rather frightfully similar to its current state, gun enthusiasts find themselves at the end of the civil war without anything to shoot. The Baltimore Gun Club and its president, Impey Barbicane, decide that an altogether different approach to ballistics should be taken and undertake a mission to send a missile to the moon.
Inevitably, a Frenchman pops up and demands he man the missile, turning the un-manned mission in to a manned mission, and something that the whole country is captivated by.
Unparalleled in imagination, though rather lacking in some areas, Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon is an excellent read, especially considering the 1969 mission that actually occurred. It is a wonderful tale, though I think it relies far too heavily on what Verne was rather too fond of, and that's the scientific element. Many sci-fi writers fall foul of this and that's to add too much science and not enough fiction. Keeping the balance truly makes a "can't-possibly-happen" story turn in to a "wonderfully-imaginative-and-yet-might-actually-happen" story. Just as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, we seem to be inundated with Verne's intelligence.
The characters are much of a muchness and his stereotypes are complete, if rather boring. From the Earth to the Moon is an important book in as much as for the time it was written, than for any other reason. But it is still a very interesting read, great fun to get through and really won't challenge you but will still make you think. -
I thought this was an excellent book, very understandable and easy to read. Jules Verne had a wonderful imagination and I look forward to reading other works by this author.
What I particularly liked was the satire and the technical explanation of how various types of telescope worked.
Who needs a technical manual when you can read Jules Verne? -
Como siempre me pasa con las novelas de Jules Verne, De la Tierra a la Luna ha sido una experiencia mayormente gratificante. Una novela que se lee rápido, fácil y que cumple con entretener y hacerte pasar un rato agradable. En pocas palabras, unas de esas lecturas para desconectar y que te entrega lo que te promete.
En De la Tierra a la Luna se plantea un proyecto muy ambicioso para su tiempo: la construcción de un proyectil para ser enviado a la Luna. La historia empieza con una simple idea, para dar paso a una serie de consideraciones, cálculos, tipos de materiales a utilizar, entre otros aspectos aparentemente relevantes. Como es típico en una novela de Verne, lo primero es discutir cómo hacer la idea posible, para posteriormente pasar a la ejecución del ambicioso proyecto. Entiendo que algunas veces esto podría parecer tedioso, en especial cuando los personajes hablan de cantidades tal o cual, que al final del día no son los puntos más fuertes en la historia, pero pienso que una vez que toda esta etapa ha pasado, la novela se mantiene con un ritmo adecuado en el que empiezan a pasar muchas cosas relacionadas con la construcción del proyectil y al menos a mí me mantuvo interesado desde ese momento hasta el final.
Con respecto a los personajes, hay cuatro que se podrían considerar los principales: el presidente del Gun Club, Barbicane, el secretario Maston, el capitán Nicholl, y por supuesto mi favorito y el típico personaje verniano que se caracteriza por ser quien vive para la aventura y que es por lo general intrépido y valeroso, el francés Michel Arden. Lo que destaco aquí es la rivalidad que existe entre Nicholl y Barbicane, que a ratos me sacaba una risa, y también la llegada de Arden para dar un giro muy inesperado a los planes que se tenían hasta ese momento.
No está de más mencionar que el tono satírico que tiene la novela hacia ese deseo y ambición por la expansión y el poder es un total acierto, y quizá no sea una sorpresa que Verne haya decidido situar su obra en los Estados Unidos, con (casi) todos sus personajes de dicha nacionalidad. Incluso hay un capítulo titulado Florida y Texas que me hizo reír tanto dadas las similitudes con nuestra época actual y con ese comportamiento tan salvaje cuando de política y poder se trata. Creo que preferiría reservarme otros posibles comentarios al respecto.
No está de más mencionar que en esta novela no somos testigos del viaje en sí, ya que esa parte corresponde a su secuela, Viaje alrededor de la Luna, que espero estar leyendo muy pronto. Aquí sólo encontramos el origen del proyecto, la planeación y la ejecución del mismo, pero aun así no deja de ser muy interesante. Por supuesto, lo recomendaría a cualquier persona que disfrute de leer las obras del autor y como primer acercamiento también.
—Mis valientes colegas, no hay ninguno de nosotros que no haya visto la Luna, o al menos que no haya oído hablar de ella. No les extrañe que venga a hablarles del astro de las noches. Quizá nos esté reservado ser los Colones de ese mundo desconocido. Compréndanme, secúndenme con toda su fuerza, y yo les guiaré a su conquista, y sus nombres se unirán a los nombres de los treinta y seis estados que forman este gran país de la Unión. -
“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is the best book I have read from Verne so far. Perhaps, one of the reasons is that in about a century, his science-fiction novel came true. Verne wrote this novel in 1865, depicting the project as an ambitious American dream. It is interesting to see that in about a century, it all happened: in 1969, Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, and after a long journey, it landed on the moon.
In other words, the novel is full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Some other similarities between the novel and reality are fascinating. Verne once mentioned the glorious moment that Americans plant the flag of the United States on the lunar surface, just as it happened in 1969!
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Από τα αγαπημένα αναγνώσματα των παιδικών μας χρόνων.
Νομίζω πως ή αυτό ή οι "20 χιλιάδες λεύγες κάτω από τη θάλασσα" ήταν το πρώτο πραγματικό μυθιστόρημα που διάβασα στη ζωή μου.
Φυσικά, το βιβλίο πλέον δείχνει την ηλικία του και με το παραπάνω, και δεν ξέρω αν είναι δυνατόν να έχει την ίδια απήχηση στα νεότερα παιδιά.
Πάντως για εμάς τους 40+, ο Ιούλιος Βερν παραμένει μια μυθική μορφή της παιδικής μας ηλικίας. -
Una storia molto particolare, questa di Verne.
Nei volumi precedenti di questi Viaggi Straordinari avevo trovato sbocchi comici, spesso affidati al servitore di turno mentre il protagonista rimaneva monolitico, serio e sicuro di sé.
Qui invece fin dall'inizio la storia ha tratti comici, le situazioni e le persone vengono accentuate ed estremizzate al punto da richiamare in più punti un Pratchett o un Benni.
Abbiamo il Gun Club, che contrariamente ai club "inglesi" visti in altri libri è formato da appassionati sfegatati di armi da fuoco, soprattutto cannoni. Persone che se le progettavano, costruivano e poi correvano sul campo di battaglia a provarle contro i Secessionisti.
Un nugolo di gente pressoché menomata, e totalmente pazza.
Lo stile usato nella narrazione si confà a questi appassionati cannonieri, così il loro piano iniziale è di raggiungere la luna con una grande palla di cannone. In segno di amicizia.
Purtroppo, a rovinare l'effetto di quella che poteva essere una storia veloce, divertente e in grado di strappare diverse risate, ci sono state alcune parti in cui Verne sembra indeciso su cosa voglia ottenere e piazza a tradimento capitoli di spiegazioni e di elenchi di fatti scientifici.
Sorprendente e piacevolissimo il finale, comunque il personaggio principe è senza dubbio Maston, il folle di buon cuore che vive per i suoi cannoni.
Azzeccata la scelta della seconda storia da mettere nel libro, "Il signor Oss", che prosegue sul filone umoristico\scientifico mostrandoci un paesino fiammingo sconosciuto al mondo dove da secoli la flemma permea abitanti, animali e natura. Non ci sono rumori, chi si muove lo fa lentamente, le decisioni richiedono tempistiche degne degli Ent di Tolkien, non ci sono litigi, non ci sono cause. Un paese al rallentatore e sotto morfina, insomma.
Finché non arriva il misterioso Oss col progetto di finanziare a sue spese l'illuminazione pubblica della città, un'illuminazione di nuova generazione ideata da lui, tramite gas ossidrico. E le cose cominciano a cambiare... piacevole. -
As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.
Yup, this is still my favourite quote. Simply because I cannot get over Verne daring to imagine that iconic tv image from 1969 in 1865.
There were a lot fun points that Verne picked up in this novel and made fun of, but sadly a lot of the satire in this novel is at the expense of the US, who is pretty much represented only by the characters of the Baltimore Gun Club, who out of boredom following the end of the Civil War, attempt to build a cannon that can reach the moon.
I enjoyed the poking fun at gun enthusiasts, I did not enjoy the poking fun at whole nation. There were some other stereotypes, too, French and German, but the majority of Verne's mockery was pointed firmly at the US.
Still, apart from the blatant stereotyping, this was a romp and fun, fun, fun diversion into imagining the impossible and then backing it up with science. Of course, we know now that the science was iffy, but it is conceivable that the readers in 1865 did not meet the book with our modern scepticism but with wonder and marvel. And I just love Verne's work for that. I would really love to know if anyone involved in space exploration was inspired by this book because I can totally see this being the case.
So, why not 5 stars?
The sheer amount of maths and hypothesising about maths and physics, was just too much for me.
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Is it the fate of every science fiction novel to become obsolete, to appear quaint, even silly in ages to come? Verne was certainly a pioneer, and this book is impressive in a number of ways. But on the narrative level, it performs a glorious belly flop.
Pages and pages of engineering terminology, numbers, weights and measures. A few snide lampoons in the form of the American Gun club, who are determined to fire off their experiment as quickly and dramatically as possible. The set up is very Verne, but the process and intricate examination of the principles underlying the book's thesis are tedious in the extreme, unless you like scientific textbooks. Verne passed off many such treatises as "adventures." Historians will always read him, but I predict his fans will die out as his works are superseded by modern innovations in fiction. Maybe if he had balanced the storyteller's art with the research more evenly. -
Secondo libro che leggo del Verne mondiale e direi, un passo indietro rispetto a "Viaggio al centro della Terra", forse più per la scrittura: qui l'ho trovata un po' troppo scarna (colpa, magari, anche della traduzione), ma comunque meno coinvolgente!
La prima parte del libro è stata deludente, ero lì lì per abbandonarlo, ma poi non potevo farglielo al buon Jules e così ho continuato e meno male, perchè la parte centrale e finale meritano proprio. Ci sono ottimi spunti di riflessione, sia filosofica che scientifica, non approfonditi, ma che aprono la mente.
Insomma una mini-mezza-delusione, ma sempre una piacevole scoperta, soprattutto perchè scritta circa 150 anni fa dove, l'argomentazione del viaggio spaziale, nello specifico del viaggio sulla Luna, era ancora un'utopia. Bravo Verne! -
I'm not a fan of Jules Verne's writing, hence it was a bit difficult for me to complete this book. I'm just glad that somehow I did. Though there was a fair bit of skimming involved (like pages at times.)
There are a lot of good things I can say about this book like the entire concept of the Gun Club and the mission to send a projectile to Moon, some really sharp sarcastic observations that made me giggle every time I recalled them later on, a decent story overall and the feel-good factor. But there was the inescapable Verne writing that I have now come to dread that literally haunted me through the entire book, the excruciatingly slow pace of the story progression and the crazy level of Science involved for such a short read. Though the Science bit was actually quite impressive, I did not enjoy it at all.
I was hoping to finish this book in a few hours, but it took me more than 3 days to finish it. So you can guess why I gave this book a 2-star rating.
I'd recommend this book only to the hardcore fans of author Jules Verne and to no one else.
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The Reading Bud. -
Why would any skeptical post Apollo 8 reader (the earliest NASA mission that most closely resembles the plot of this book) be bothered with a lunar exploration science fiction story written 158 years ago?
After the initial euphoria surrounding the success of the Apollo 11 had worn off, people the world over quickly lost interest in putting any more men on the moon. With the developments in space tourism, space travel is now almost routine.
At face value the plot of, “From the Earth to the Moon”, appears to be old fashioned, technically infeasible and dangerously impracticable with little hope of success. The plan is for three men, seven chickens, and two dogs to embark on the conquest of the moon for the United States on board a giant projectile that has been blasted from a giant cannon packed with 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton producing 6 billion litres of gas.
To answer my own question however posed in the introduction, this terrific novel has much to offer the modern reader. It is a remarkably prophetic, satirical and adventurous science fiction masterpiece that is my favourite Verne novel to date.
”…the Moon”, proved to be inspirational for a number of early rocket pioneers such as Robert Goddard - built the world’s first liquid-fuelled rocket; Herman Oberon - one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - published the first serious work on space travel, and Wernhner von Braun - developed the Nazi’s V2 rocket and was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.
Whist onboard Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong acknowledged Verne by making the following broadcast as he and the rest of the crew were getting ready to return to Earth after their successful moon landing -
“A hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to the moon. His spaceship, Columbia took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the moon. It seems appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the crew as the modern-day Columbia completes its rendezvous with the planet Earth in the same Pacific Ocean.”
Verne’s countless hours spent at the National Library of France researching and writing about the latest scientific discoveries proved critical for his later laundry list of predictions that were to come true a century later. See below a selection:
- Just as Verne predicted there was fierce competition between Texas and Florida to host the modern space program. This was resolved by placing the Space Centre in Houston Texas and the rockets launch site in Cape Canaveral Florida.
- Brownsville Texas is listed by Verne as a potential launch site. SpaceX now have a launch facility at this same location.
- Both Verne’s projectile and the Apollo 8 capsule were built from aluminium to save weight.
- Verne’s projectile was approximately the same weight and dimensions as the Apollo 8.
- The giant cannon was built in a fictional location Verne named Stones Hill south of Tampa which is only 217 kilometres east of Cape Canaveral.
- The fictional projectile splashed down within 4 kilometres of the actual Apollo 8 splash down site in the Pacific.
- Verne’s projectile returned to earth December 12, Apollo 8 on December 27.
“..Moon”, helped to cement Verne’s reputation as one the most important and influential nineteenth century‘s science fiction writers. Many contend that he is the father of science fiction. Verne himself however argues against this in the, “..Moon”, when he references one his favourite writers Edgar Allen Poe’s novel, “The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall”. Written thirty years earlier in 1835 it concerns Pfaall’s adventures when he travels to the moon in a balloon.
In conclusion von Braun succinctly sums up Verne’s impact on space travel -
“The science in, ”From the Earth to the Moon”, is nearly as accurate as the knowledge of the time permitted … He was read with great respect by working scientists, so carefully did he do his scientific homework…the debt modern astronauts owe (Verne) is apparent.” -
Nors Žiulis Vernas ir yra both sci-fi žanro tėvas ir mokslo populiarinimo knygų žanro tėvas, ši knyga nesusiklostė nei kaip viena, nei kaip kita. "Nuo žemės į mėnulį" pasigirti gali nebent primityvoku siužetu, standartizuotais nacionaliniais stereotipais ir personažais, kurie sukarikatūrinti iki absurdo.
Kaip žmogui, parašiusiam "Kapitona Grantą", "Paslaptingąją salą" ar "20k mylių" - labai silpna. 2*. -
Whoa, thank goodness I didn't read the back cover of the book, or else several fun surprises would be spoiled.
Holy Verne, it's been so long since my last fix of his work. Two years perhaps. From the Earth to the Moon is light but still well written. This book was published in 1865, more than a hundred years (!) prior to the first successful moon landing by the men of Apollo 11.
I'm not able to prove all the scientific calculation and details described so eloquently here, but they're sure as hell convincing enough. Again, Verne never ceases to amaze me with his knack of making technical details to be interesting.
He actually made some correct predictions, such as:
1. the country who successfully sent a manned mission to the moon is the US. Well, he did manage to include a French guy to join the mission - nationalistic interest perhaps?
2. the two states contesting to be the launch site were Florida and Texas. Yep, and Florida won too in real life.
3. the shape of the capsule and there were three people on board. Remember Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
Verne did see far into the future. And he complemented all of those with wisecracking humor in between. Je vous adore beaucoup, monsieur!
Distance is an empty word, distance does not exist!
Believe in the power of imagination and let it flow, because you'll never know what the future holds. -
One of the similarities from the book (1865) to what actually happened later
One example:
Excerpt from wikipedia:
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17. -
سفر به ماه، یکی از شاهکارهای ژول ورن است چرا که او قبل از این که بشر موفق به سفر به ماه شود، این کتاب را نوشته‌است. از آن زمان که انسان ماه را به عنوان کره‌ای دیگر شناخت، آرزوی پرواز خود را با آرزوی دستیابی به تنها قمر زمین عجین ساخت اما سال‌های بسیاری نیاز بود. حتی از زمانی که ژول ورن در داستان خود انسان را به ماه رساند نیز مدت‌ها گذشت تا بالاخره این رؤیای انسان به حقیقت پیوست.
نکات قابل توجه در این کتاب
سال چاپ کتاب : ۱۸۶۵
سال عملیات آپولو۱۱ : ۱۹۶۹
اشخاصی که در سفینه‌ی کتاب ژول ورن بودند: باربیکن، نیکول و میشل آردن
اشخاصی که در آپولو ۱۱ بودند:
نیل آرمسترانگ، آلدرین، مایکل کالینز
محل عملیات در کتاب : فلوریدا آمریکا
محل عملیات در واقعیت: فلوریدا آمریکا
محل سقوط سفینه در کتاب : اقیانوس آرام
محل سقوط سفینه در واقعیت: تقریبا نزدیک به همان محلی که سفینه ورن سقوط کرد!
این کتاب و باید خودتون مطالعه کنید تا پی به قدرت تخیل این نویسنده بزرگ فرانسوی ببرید
انگار که ژول ورن زنده بوده و این عملیات و به چشمان خودش دیده و به رشته تحریر در آورده! چرا که تمام اتفاقات روی داده در داخل سفینه و خارج از سفینه شباهت‌هایی بسیار زیادی به واقعیت داشته! -
"Those three men have carried into space all the resources of art, science, and industry. With that, one can do anything...”
Though humorous and outlandish at times, this must have been an inspiration for generations to come. -
Audiobook #244
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Αν σου αρέσει η φυσική, η χημεία, τα μαθηματικά είναι τέλεια η ιστορία αλλά δεν είμαι λάτρης οπότε και δεν ευχαριστήθηκα την ιστορία! Επίσης έχει τόσες υποσημειώσεις που εφτάσαν σε σημείο αγανάκτησης.
If you like physics, chemistry and mathematics it's the perfect story for you but I'm not a fan of this subjects so I didn't enjoy this story! Also my edition had so many footnotes that it frustrated me! -
I either end up really enjoying Jules Verne's books or feeling rather underwhelmed by them? The premise always draws me in but the content don't always end up being as exciting. They are well written but my mind tends to wander around while reading. But when I read a winner by him it's all worth the dudds. However this wasn't a winner. But I'll keep trying
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Amazing. Reading Verne is so fun! You always get the right amount of adventure, imagination, craziness and criticism. From the Earth to the Moon is no exception. The plot could've failed so easy, since it is full of data, numbers, lists and what anyone could categorized as boring, but the author wants you to be entertain and I was the entire time. It is impressive how fast I got into the novel. A visionary man with great ideas that illuminated our present.
Verne es extrañamente entretenido y muy propio. Incluso para insultar tiene elegancia.
De la Tierra a la Luna es muy interesante si en verdad quieres saber cómo una persona de 1800s creía que se podía llegar a la Luna y lo que se pensaba de ella en ese entonces, ya que te topas con listas, capítulos enteros centrados en la logística de lo que será el viaje y comentarios constantes sobre los “habitantes de la Luna”. De alguna manera lo disfruté, las descripciones son sencillas, no te revuelve y cuando menos te lo esperas ya se terminó. El autor no solo era un visionario sino que era un increíble contador de historias, por eso un libro tan técnico como este no aburre.
No se puede negar la clara crítica a la adoración que sienten los americanos por las guerras (ganadas), si lo hace bien o mal ya es a consideración personal, yo creo que a partes iguales se burla y lo cuestiona, perfeccionar las armas bélicas, consideradas como instrumentos de civilización. Y a decir verdad, la transición de esta crítica a historia de aventuras es perfecta aunque tarde en llegar.
"Y sin embargo lo que pretendían era enviarle un proyectil, manera bastante brutal de entrar en relaciones, aunque sea con un satélite, pero muy utilizada por las naciones civilizadas. "
El final es bastante increíble, para nada lo que me esperaba y por supuesto hay continuación, pero les digo, si acabara así yo estaría feliz e impresionada. -
From the Earth to the moon
President Barbicane and his 3-team member begin a special survey about how they can do one journey to moon as of using one shot. Captain Nicholl always stays negative against to this idea but anyhow he attends to journey. Brave and extraordinary person Michel Ardan wants to also go to moon with rocket. After the all technical preparation the journey starts accordingly. If the people consider that the book has written in1865 than easily understood that Author’s unbelievable imagination. It is good book. -
وقتی راهنمایی بودم خوندمش، چهار ستاره واسه لذت اون موقع ها
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‘From the Earth to the Moon’ is the foremost representative of a Jules Verne novel!
Jules Verne tries very hard to use the actual science facts known in his lifetime to solve speculative science-fiction problems in his novels. In this book, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ he tackles the tasks of getting a capsule to the moon from earth! The movies that have been made based on this book are truly fun, but the novel itself is written like it’s a work journal a team of engineers wrote about building an extra challenging, never-been-done-before-bridge across a large chasm. The result is more of an automotive-repair textbook than a science fiction novel.
Verne adds into his textbook-novel attractive characters to explain the science and to entertain the reader. Unfortunately, the story is primarily about the blueprints, math and engineering. The main characters are eccentrics and thus very funny, but the solving of the engineering challenges are what they talk about 99% of the time.
This edition has hand-drawn illustrations which I liked a lot. I believe it is two books in one volume. The two parts seem like they may not have been published in one volume originally. -
Reto 12 libros - 12 meses del grupo
Sangre de tinta
Abril - Un libro de mas de cien años
Julio Verne siempre ha sido uno de mis autores favoritos, sus aventuras siempre son entretenidas y, cuando se introduce en el ámbito de la ciencia ficción (tematica que prácticamente creó) siempre se nota lo adelantado que estaba a su tiempo. Acá tenemos uno de sus títulos mas vistosos, donde se plantea como seria un viaje hacia la luna, pero en un tiempo donde no existían los teléfonos, o los automóviles; debo decir que es impresionante que Verne tuviera razón en muchas cosas de como serian los viajes espaciales, sin embargo tambien tiene unos errores que se vuelven algo graciosos dado el conocimiento que tenemos en la actualidad sobre la luna, el espacio y el esfuerzo requerido para el desarrollo de los cohetes, aun así hay que reconocerle mucho al autor por todo lo que concibe sin ser un experto en el tema.
Después de leer el libro me di cuenta de que en realidad solo es la primera parte de una historia dado su final, así que digamos que esta es una reseña a medias, de un libro a medias, que no estoy seguro recomendaría, a menos que seas fanático del autor o que estés abierto a reírte un poco del pasado.
Próximamente colocare lo que opino de la segunda parte de la historia.
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Los nombres de Nicholl, de Barbicane y de Michel Ardan deberán, pues, ser siempre célebres en los fastos astronómicos, porque estos atrevidos exploradores, deseando ensanchar el círculo de los conocimientos humanos, atravesaron audazmente el espacio y se jugaron la vida en la más sorprendente tentativa de los tiempos modernos.
Si Julio Verne hubiera tenido una bola de cristal para ver el futuro, no lo habría adivinado con tanto acierto. Es increíble la cantidad de coincidencias entre las aventuras descritas en "De la Tierra a la Luna" y la misión espacial "Apollo XI", o tal vez, tanto influyó la literatura de Verne en la imaginación de la humanidad que consiguió que la realidad se amoldara a sus creaciones literarias.
A parte de ser una obra eminentemente científica, donde Verne exhibe sus conocimientos en ciencia y tecnología, es también una obra satírica (los primeros capítulos con la fundación del Gun Club y las ocupaciones de sus miembros no tiene precio, para morirse de risa).
Además de todas las serendipias científicas y tecnológicas, en esta obra también nos encontramos con un "crowdfunding" pionero para financiar los gastos del proyecto, en el cual, por cierto, ya los españoles dábamos muestras de nuestra pobre inversión en I+D+I, con la mísera aportación de 150 reales. Hasta en eso Verne era visionario, jajaja. -
کتاب سفر به ماه اثر ژول ورن در سال ۱۸۶۵ چاپ شد
اولین سفر به ماه آپولو۱۱ در سال ۱۹۶۹ انجام گرفت
تعداد سرنشینان سفینه ژول ورن، سه نفر بودند
تعداد سرنشینان سفینه آپولو۱۱ هم سه نفر بودند.
محل عملیات در کتاب ژول ورن فلوریدا آمریکا بود
محل عملیات آپولو ۱۱ هم در فلوریدا آمریکا صورت گرفت
محل سقوط سفینه ورن در اقیانوس آرام بود
محل سقوط آپولو ۱۱ هم تقریبا نزدیک به همان محلی که سفینه ورن سقوط کرده بود!
شباهت‌ها بقدری زیاد بود که واقعا متحیر شدم!
چطور ممکنه یک نویسنده، ۱۰۴ سال قبل از عملیات آپولو ۱۱ همه چیز رو همون‌طور که باید، پیش بینی کنه و تو کتابش بنویسه؟!
تا خودتون کتاب رو نخونید به خوبی متوجه عرایض من نمی‌شید! -
A book that doesn't seem like it was written 150 years ago.The method to get to the moon is well laid out to the point of actually believing it could work. It is a project that I would have liked to see happen if I had lived 150 years ago.
