Chapter

 1 III |         could bear any amount of weight, and Barbicane and his companions
 2 III |          projectile owing to its weight. Poor Diana, with her head
 3 IV  |          moon, on account of its weight.”~“So be it,” said Michel; “
 4 V   |      lightened of a considerable weight.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl.~“
 5 VI  |        of ravines, where its own weight will cause it to accumulate,
 6 VI  |   Nicholl, “is that the specific weight of the body, which is certainly
 7 VI  |          speed whatever be their weight or form; it is the air,
 8 VI  |     creates these differences in weight. When you create a vacuum
 9 VII |     weighed” almost nothing. Its weight was ever decreasing, and
10 VII |       virtue of the mere laws of weight.”~“Enough,” said Michel
11 VII |    Nicholl. “Do you consider the weight of a thread 250,000 miles
12 VIII|     leaving the earth, their own weight, that of the projectile,
13 VIII|          show this loss; for the weight destined to weight the object
14 VIII|       for the weight destined to weight the object would have lost
15 VIII| attraction, otherwise called the weight, is in proportion to the
16 VIII|          without ever losing its weight entirely, for the terrestrial
17 VIII|         be subject to the law of weight, after allowing for the
18 VIII|         projectile would possess weight no longer. If the moon’s
19 VIII|         having lost all trace of weight, as well as all the objects
20 VIII|    longer subject to the laws of weight?~Up to this time, the travelers,
21 VIII|          wonders! they felt that weight was really wanting to their
22 VIII|          in whom nothing had any weight, and who weighed nothing
23 VIII|    neutralization of the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always enthusiastic,
24 VIII|     could throw off some of that weight, some of that chain which
25 VIII|     could succeed in suppressing weight as they suppress pain by
26 VIII|         of his subject, “destroy weight, and no more burdens!”~“
27 VIII|           but if nothing had any weight, nothing would keep in its
28 VIII|      whose stones only adhere by weight; nor a boat, whose stability
29 VIII|          waves is only caused by weight; not even the ocean, whose
30 VIII|          from whence all laws of weight are banished, you are at
31 VIII|       see— about 5,000 pounds, a weight which you would never be
32 IX  |        an orb, it is true, where weight could only be reckoned at
33 IX  |         one sixth of terrestrial weight; a formidable fall, nevertheless,
34 IX  |         easy to handle, as their weight was now scarcely felt, was
35 IX  |     lower part, by reason of its weight, ought to be turned toward
36 IX  |       that at a nearer point the weight, predominating, would cause
37 XII |         the Selenites.”~“Why? if weight on the moon’s surface is
38 XV  |   attraction, that is to say the weight, had brought about this
39 XIX |         longer consider specific weight.”~“Very well,” cried Michel
40 XIX |     atmosphere, for the specific weight of these different objects
41 XIX |         his hand.~At that moment weight had no effect. The travelers
42 XXII|         raise it in spite of its weight, which was lessened by the
43 XXII|         weighed 19,250 pounds, a weight very inferior to that of