From The Earth To The Moon / Around The Moon

Autor: Verne, Julio

Editorial: Wordsworth

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9781840226706

Reseña: 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 Vernes 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 science of the day to construct a literary conjuring trick a hoax one of the most successful in all history. By skilful misdirection he drew the attention of readers away from weaknesses in the project. Read the book and you too will be fooled into accepting the realistic possibility in Vernes time of that dream of flying to the Moon.