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From the Earth to the Moon - Noyemi

By Jules Verne

Table of Contents


     I.  The Gun Club
    II.  President Barbicane's Communication
   III.  Effect of the President's Communication
    IV.  Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge
     V.  The Romance of the Moon
    VI.  The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
   VII.  The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
  VIII.  History of the Cannon
    IX.  The Question of the Powders
     X.  One Enemy _V._ Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
    XI.  Florida and Texas
   XII.  Urbi et Orbi
  XIII.  Stones Hill
   XIV.  Pickaxe and Trowel
    XV.  The Fete of the Casting
   XVI.  The Columbiad
  XVII.  A Telegraphic Dispatch
 XVIII.  The Passenger of the Atlanta
   XIX.  A Monster Meeting
    XX.  Attack and Riposte
   XXI.  How A Frenchman Manages An Affair
  XXII.  The New Citizen of the United States
 XXIII.  The Projectile-Vehicle
  XXIV.  The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
   XXV.  Final Details
  XXVI.  Fire!
 XXVII.  Foul Weather
XXVIII.  A New Star


                         A TRIP AROUND IT

Preliminary Chapter-- Recapitulating the First Part of
        This Work, and Serving as a Preface to the Second

     I. From Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M.
    II. The First Half Hour
   III. Their Place of Shelter
    IV. A Little Algebra
     V. The Cold of Space
    VI. Question and Answer
   VII. A Moment of Intoxication
  VIII. At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues
    IX. The Consequences of A Deviation
     X. The Observers of the Moon
    XI. Fancy and Reality
   XII. Orographic Details
  XIII. Lunar Landscapes
   XIV. The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and A Half
    XV. Hyperbola or Parabola
   XVI. The Southern Hemisphere
  XVII. Tycho
 XVIII. Grave Questions
   XIX. A Struggle Against the Impossible
    XX. The Soundings of the Susquehanna
   XXI. J. T. Maston Recalled
  XXII. Recovered From the Sea
 XXIII. The End



FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON




CHAPTER I


THE GUN CLUB


During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was
established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters
became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers,
and mechanics.  Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become
extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having
ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point;
nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old
continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of
lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.

But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the
Europeans was in the science of gunnery.  Not, indeed, that
their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than
theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and
consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges.  In point of
grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank
firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to
learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere
pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the
American artillery.

This fact need surprise no one.  The Yankees, the first
mechanicians in the world, are engineers-- just as the Italians
are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians-- by right of birth.

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