De La Terre À La Lune: Trajet Direct En 97 Heures 20 Minutes
1865
De La Terre À La Lune: Trajet Direct En 97 Heures 20 Minutes
1865
The Civil War is over, and a group of American artillery officers find themselves with nothing to shoot and nothing to build. So they build the biggest gun ever imagined, not to kill, but to reach the moon. Impey Barbicane, president of the Gun-Club, proposes firing a projectile carrying three men into lunar orbit, and the project consumes a nation. What follows is a meticulous, absurd, utterly compelling account of men who apply wartime ingenuity to peacetime ambition. Verne anticipates rocket physics, capsule design, and splashdown with eerie precision, yet his true subject is something wilder: the arrogance and optimism that drive humans to fling themselves into the void. This is science fiction's founding text, not because it predicted the future, but because it believed one was possible.
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“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!””
— Jules Verne
“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.””
— Jules Verne
“It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure””
— Jules Verne
“La distance est un vain mot, la distance n'existe pas!””
— Jules Verne
“Réfléchi! Est-ce que j’ai du temps à perdre? Je trouve l’occasion d’aller faire un tour dans la Lune, j’en profite, et voilà tout. Il me semble que cela ne mérite pas tant de réflexions.””
— Jules Verne
“Cheers for Edgar Poe!””
— Jules Verne
“Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.””
— Jules Verne
“What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile.””
— Jules Verne
“Vete al comedor, da una vuelta alrededor de la mesa mirado siempre su centro, y cuando hayas concluido el paseo circular, habrás dado una vuelta alrededor de ti mismo, puesto que la vista habrá recorrido todos los puntos del comedor. Pues bien, el comedor es el Cielo, la mesa es la Tierra y tú eres la Luna.””
— Jules Verne
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