Around the Moon
Around the Moon is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne. The novel was first published in 1870 under the French title Autour de la Lune from the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel. It is the sequel to the 1865 published work From the Earth to the Moon ( De la Terre à la Lune ). The first German edition appeared in 1873 published by the Brothers Légrády in Pest under the title Around the Moon.
It is an early work of science fiction genre which anticipates the trip to the moon by almost exactly one hundred years. However, Verne's Moon drivers do not use rocket, but a gun, and they do not land on the moon.
Action
Barbicane, the president of the gun clubs of Baltimore is located with its companions Nicholl and Ardan in the basement in the huge cannon, a cannon tremendous firepower with which they are to be shot to the moon along with two dogs from Earth. The three astronauts survive the launch. Shortly thereafter, they encounter another small satellite of the Earth. You puzzle over why they have not heard the bang of the launch at startup and come to the conclusion that the sound could not overtake because they already moved away immediately after starting at supersonic speed. One of the two dogs is seriously injured by the start and eventually dies. Through a hole astronauts throw him out of their space capsule and discover later that the carcass of the dog follows them with the same course and speed.
You think about how they set up after landing on the moon there and communicate with the Moon residents. The travelers come during flight in a state of intoxication. Cause is an over- saturation of the air in the capsule with oxygen through a valve to wide open. In the vicinity of the moon, they experience the perfect weightlessness. They eventually discover that their price will miss the moon. The cause is probably the deflection of the projectile in the encounter with the second small satellites of the Earth. Takes you to the orbit of the moon.
Your flight path is fortunately an ellipse around the earth and no hyperbole and eventually leads them to a flight around the poles of the moon back to her home planet back. Along the way she almost missed the collision with an asteroid. They eventually overturn your projectile into the Pacific Ocean. The flight was witnessed by the Secretary of the gun club, the mathematical genius James T. Maston with a telescope on the Longs Peak in the Rocky Mountains in the area of the U.S. state of Colorado. The astronauts are finally rescued by the crew of the research vessel Susquehanna, a corvette of the United States Navy. After their rescue, the three men are celebrated on earth as heroes.
Background
Even more than in From the Earth to the Moon are in this more action- poor novel, the didactic passages in the center. Wide sweep the known to the emergence time details of the origin of the moon, the topography of the moon, to name the moon seas and mountains and the history of astronomical observation moon be spread. On several occasions, the author refers here to the moon maps of the German astronomer Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler.
Work history
The preprint of Autour de la Lune was dated 4 November to 8 December 1869 feuilleton section of the newspaper Journal des Débats. The edition was posted on January 13, 1870 under the title Autour de la Lune. Seconde partie de: De la Terre à la Lune published in the publishing house of Pierre -Jules Hetzel. On September 16, 1872 was followed by an illustrated with 44 engravings by Henri Theophile Hildibrand after drawings by Emile Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville output.
German editions (selection)
- Around the Moon. Translated by Ute Haffmans. Diogenes, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-257-20243-1.
- Around the Moon. Translated by Martin Schoske. Fischer paperback publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-13372-6.