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THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER This curious but certainly correct explanation once given, the three friends returned to their slumbers. Could they have found a calmer or more peaceful spot to sleep in? On th…
A LITTLE ALGEBRA The night passed without incident. The word “night,” however, is scarcely applicable. The position of the projectile with regard to the sun did not change. Astronomically, it was da…
THE COLD OF SPACE This revelation came like a thunderbolt. Who could have expected such an error in calculation? Barbicane would not believe it. Nicholl revised his figures: they were exact. As to th…
QUESTION AND ANSWER On the 4th of December, when the travelers awoke after fifty-four hours’ journey, the chronometer marked five o’clock of the terrestrial morning. In time it was just over five hou…
A MOMENT OF INTOXICATION Thus a phenomenon, curious but explicable, was happening under these strange conditions. Every object thrown from the projectile would follow the same course and never stop …
AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES What had happened? Whence the cause of this singular intoxication, the consequences of which might have been very disastrous? A simple blun…
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DEVIATION Barbicane had now no fear of the issue of the journey, at least as far as the projectile’s impulsive force was concerned; its own speed would carry it beyond the neutr…
THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON Barbicane had evidently hit upon the only plausible reason of this deviation. However slight it might have been, it had sufficed to modify the course of the projectile. It w…
FANCY AND REALITY “Have you ever seen the moon?” asked a professor, ironically, of one of his pupils. “No, sir!” replied the pupil, still more ironically, “but I must say I have heard it spoken of.”…
OROGRAPHIC DETAILS The course taken by the projectile, as we have before remarked, was bearing it toward the moon’s northern hemisphere. The travelers were far from the central point which they would…
