Dalla Terra alla Luna

Original title: From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon (English)

by Jules Verne

Credits: Jules Verne (author)

Summary

Dalla Terra alla Luna (De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) è un romanzo di fantascienza di Jules Verne del 1865, prima parte di un dittico che si chiude con Intorno alla Luna (Autour de la Lune) scritto nel 1870. In questo romanzo Verne anticipa le prime fasi dello storico allunaggio, avvenuto realmente 104 anni dopo con la missione spaziale Apollo 11, il 20 luglio 1969.

From Wikipedia (Italian): Dalla Terra alla Luna (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Chapters (51)

  1. 1. The Gun Club
  2. 2. President Barbicane’s Communication
  3. 3. Effect of the President’s Communication
  4. 4. Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge
  5. 5. The Romance of the Moon
  6. 6. Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
  7. 7. The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
  8. 8. History of the Cannon
  9. 9. The Question of the Powders
  10. 10. Chapter 10
  11. 11. Florida and Texas
  12. 12. Urbi Et Orbi
  13. 13. Stones Hill
  14. 14. Pickaxe and Trowel
  15. 15. The Fete of the Casting
  16. 16. The Columbiad
  17. 17. A Telegraphic Dispatch
  18. 18. The Passenger of the Atlanta
  19. 19. A Monster Meeting
  20. 20. Attack and Riposte
  21. 21. How a Frenchman Manages an Affair
  22. 22. The New Citizen of the United States
  23. 23. The Projectile-Vehicle
  24. 24. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
  25. 25. Final Details
  26. 26. Chapter 26
  27. 27. Foul Weather
  28. 28. A New Star
  29. 29. Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M
  30. 30. The First Half-Hour
  31. 31. Their Place of Shelter
  32. 32. A Little Algebra
  33. 33. The Cold of Space
  34. 34. Question and Answer
  35. 35. A Moment of Intoxication
  36. 36. At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues
  37. 37. The Consequences of a Deviation
  38. 38. The Observers of the Moon
  39. 39. Fancy and Reality
  40. 40. Orographic Details
  41. 41. Lunar Landscapes
  42. 42. The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and a Half
  43. 43. Hyperbola or Parabola
  44. 44. The Southern Hemisphere
  45. 45. Tycho
  46. 46. Grave Questions
  47. 47. A Struggle Against the Impossible
  48. 48. The Soundings of the Susquehanna
  49. 49. J. T. Maston Recalled
  50. 50. Recovered from the Sea

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