Chapter
1 III | was in opposition to the sun.”~“Why?” said Nicholl.~“
2 III | because of the rays of the sun. It is better for us to
3 III | slopes of Burgundy, the sun chose to be part of the
4 III | that of the earth.~“The sun!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“
5 III | of the three stars, the sun, the earth, and the moon,
6 III | summer. The moon above, the sun beneath, were inundating
7 III | were solid plank; but the sun striking it directly with
8 III | to take the height of the sun, glasses which would be
9 III | his mind! On one side the sun, like the mouth of a lighted
10 III | in the midst of which the sun ranks only as a star of
11 IV | projectile with regard to the sun did not change. Astronomically,
12 IV | rising and setting of the sun upon the earth.~The travelers’
13 IV | considering their motion round the sun. No, I shall consider these
14 V | frozen to death.”~“But the sun?”~“The sun warms our projectile,
15 V | death.”~“But the sun?”~“The sun warms our projectile, which
16 V | darkness; it is cold where the sun’s rays do not strike direct.
17 V | globe would undergo if the sun disappeared one day.”~“Which
18 V | But, in admitting that the sun does not go out, might it
19 V | greater than that of the sun. The terrestrial orbit will
20 V | distance that the rays of the sun will have no action on its
21 V | nearest approach to the sun, it would have undergone
22 VI | not seem to change. The sun and stars appeared exactly
23 VI | the earth fell upon the sun?” asked Nicholl.~“According
24 VI | additional heat for the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “
25 VI | shock of each meteor on the sun ought to produce a heat
26 VI | of coal surrounding the sun to a depth of forty-seven
27 VI | about to lose itself in the sun’s rays! By the bye, Barbicane,
28 VI | Yes, eclipses of the sun,” replied Barbicane, “when
29 VI | pure shadow, and that the sun sends her its rays, not
30 VI | perihelion, pass so near the sun as by evaporation to get
31 VII | showed its convexity. If the sun’s rays had struck it obliquely,
32 VII | vines, warmed by that ardent sun, ought to distill even more
33 VII | to wrap oneself in the sun’s pure rays. If Barbicane
34 VIII | Lilliputian.”~“And in the sun?”~“In the sun, if its density
35 VIII | And in the sun?”~“In the sun, if its density is thirteen
36 VIII | would have no effect on the sun; they would fall back upon
37 VIII | pounds on the surface of the sun. If you were to fall upon
38 VIII | figure. We will see about the sun by and by.”~
39 IX | half of the firmament. The sun on one side, and the orb
40 XII | vividly the light of the sun?”~“No,” replied Barbicane; “
41 XII | lava which shone when the sun beat straight upon them.
42 XIII | by the direct rays of the sun. It was a succession of
43 XIII | the lunar axis keeps the sun at an almost equal height
44 XIII | darkness reigns where the sun’s rays do not penetrate.
45 XIII | shade his eyes from the sun’s rays, the sky would seem
46 XIV | expensive brilliancy which the sun then refused.~“Devil take
47 XIV | Do not let us accuse the sun,” said Nicholl, “it is not
48 XIV | between us and it.”~“It is the sun!” continued Michel.~“It
49 XIV | neither the fault of the sun nor of the moon; it is the
50 XIV | on the contrary, when the sun which has given its light
51 XIV | disappears at the moment when the sun reappears in its turn!”~“
52 XIV | always looks on either the sun when the moon is full, or
53 XIV | light and heat from the sun, it is because the moon
54 XIV | is situated between the sun and the earth. It follows,
55 XIV | that she is nearer to the sun by twice her distance from
56 XIV | that which separates the sun from the earth, or in round
57 XIV | is so much nearer to the sun when she receives its rays.”~“
58 XIV | of the moon is lit by the sun, it is because the moon
59 XIV | is to say, opposite the sun with regard to the earth.
60 XIV | mentioned eclipses of the sun, which only take place on
61 XIV | between the moon and the sun, can last two hours; during
62 XIV | but a black point upon the sun.~“So,” said Nicholl, “there
63 XIV | thick coating of ice. The sun was no longer warming the
64 XIV | when we were drowned in the sun’s rays?~“It is now or never,”
65 XIV | heat which fifteen days of sun have poured into her.~
66 XV | the moon, immersed in the sun’s rays, will not be visible
67 XVI | into space opposite the sun. This cone, indeed, is very
68 XVI | pronounce upon it.~“The sun!” he exclaimed.~“What! the
69 XVI | he exclaimed.~“What! the sun?” answered Nicholl and Michel
70 XVII | the blessed rays of the sun. They saw once more those
71 XVII | it, but immersed in the sun’s irradiation she was quite
72 XVII | mirrors, reflecting the sun’s rays with overpowering
73 XVII | the bottom of which the sun’s rays could never reach.
74 XVII | which the light of the sun and the earth cannot break.
75 XVIII| the double irradiation of sun and moon, must have appeared
76 XIX | shone prominently like a sun.~Barbicane had no means
77 XIX | the earth is nearest the sun she is in her perihelion;
78 XXII | shone under the rays of the sun as if it had been made of
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