Chapter
1 II | zenith, the mathematical point which it ought to attain
2 III | wish to reach, than the point of departure.”~“You are
3 III | after having passed the point of neutral attraction) on
4 IV | to attain that neutral point where the terrestrial and
5 IV | for, starting from that point, situated about nine-tenths
6 IV | tell you its speed at any point of its transit.”~“On your
7 IV | Nicholl; “it is from that point that we must calculate the
8 IV | enable it to reach the equal point of attraction, ought to
9 IV | able to reach the neutral point.”~“The deuce!”~“We shall
10 IV | if it was already on the point of striking the terrestrial
11 V | them to reach the neutral point.~The three friends looked
12 V | earth. We have passed the point at which the projectile
13 VII | she would reach the exact point where her meeting with the
14 VIII| proportion. There must come a point where these two attractions
15 VIII| densities had been equal, this point would have been at an equal
16 VIII| easy to reckon that this point would be situated at 4760ths
17 VIII| from the earth. At this point, a body having no principle
18 VIII| calculated, it would attain this point without speed, having lost
19 VIII| of motion, and pass the point of equal attraction, and
20 VIII| and unable to reach the point of equal attraction, it
21 VIII| it to reach the neutral point, but not sufficient to pass
22 VIII| had reached this neutral point situated at that distance,
23 VIII| projectile passes the neutral point, the lunar attraction will
24 VIII| and when it has passed the point of equal attraction, its
25 IX | question from a practical point of view; they would have
26 IX | moon will not be at the point indicated, and later it
27 IX | might hope that at a nearer point the weight, predominating,
28 X | striking the lunar disc at some point or other. He could not think
29 XI | able to attain that unknown point of the terrestrial globe.~
30 XI | portion of the globe. But in point of fact, these are not liquid
31 XI | map from a very different point of view to that of their
32 XII | were far from the central point which they would have struck,
33 XII | appeared like a brilliant point through the cloudy light,
34 XIII| four miles distant.~At this point, under their feet, rose
35 XIII| an instant from boiling point to the cold of space.~Another
36 XIII| projectile could not attain any point whatever of the satellite,
37 XIV | hours and a half at each point of the disc, a long night
38 XIV | appear as nothing but a black point upon the sun.~“So,” said
39 XIV | it could never reach any point of the moon. Whither was
40 XV | increased or diminished? Every point of mark was wanting by which
41 XV | it might strike some high point on the invisible hemisphere,
42 XV | almost concentric curve.~This point of mark was a luminous brightness,
43 XV | by the black disc. This point could not be confounded
44 XV | was taking it far from the point indicated by the eruption.
45 XV | being sighted, this luminous point had disappeared behind the
46 XVII| elliptical orbit. From this point, had the earth been at the
47 XVII| to remark this brilliant point of the southern hemisphere.
48 XIX | earth? That was a difficult point.~In watching the course
49 XIX | most likely extend to the point of equal attraction, where
50 XIX | when arrived at this dead point, what will become of us?”
51 XIX | success from a stomachic point of view. Certainly Michel
52 XIX | aphelion at the farthest point. Speaking of the moon, she
53 XIX | aposelene” at its farthest point, and in its “periselene”
54 XIX | toward its aposelenitical point; and Barbicane had reason
55 XIX | would decrease up to this point, and then increase by degrees
56 XIX | even become nil, if this point joined that of equal attraction.
57 XIX | is probable that at the point of equal attraction, its
58 XIX | first passage at the dead point, because the projectile
59 XIX | projectile would reach the point of equal attraction, on
60 XIX | distance between the dead point and the south pole would
61 XIX | north pole from the dead point. The hours representing
62 XIX | Barbicane found that this point would be reached at one
63 XIX | it would reach the given point in twenty-two hours.~The
64 XIX | One hour more, and the point of equal attraction would
65 XIX | utterly annulled on this dead point, a decided movement toward
66 XIX | were very near the neutral point, if they did not touch it.~“
67 XIX | projectile beyond the dead point. The explosion of the rockets
68 XIX | it to pass through every point which it had already gone
69 XXI | We know the truth on that point.~But on the arrival of Blomsberry’
70 XXII| so as to reach this exact point.~At forty-seven minutes
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