Chapter
1 Pre | in communication with the moon!— yes, with the moon— by
2 Pre | the moon!— yes, with the moon— by sending to her a projectile.
3 Pre | in order to aim at the moon when at the zenith; and
4 Pre | P.M., it ought to reach the moon four days after its departure,
5 Pre | that he might reach the moon, and reconnoiter this terrestrial
6 Pre | the exact moment when the moon should be full, and not
7 Pre | universal indignation, for the moon was hidden from the eyes
8 Pre | erected which brought the moon within an apparent distance
9 Pre | following year; for the moon entering its last quarter
10 Pre | 12th of December, and the moon, with half-illuminated disc,
11 Pre | either the attraction of the moon would draw it to herself,
12 Pre | from the surface of the moon, for on the 11th of December
13 Pre | making it a satellite of the moon, it was putting it in direct
14 Pre | watched the course of the moon through the starry space.~
15 I | If there are dogs in the moon,” said Barbicane.~“There
16 II | windows, the earth or the moon by the upper and under openings
17 II | remark from Ardan:~“And the moon; will she perchance fail
18 II | have thought it a small moon reflecting the light of
19 II | face being opposite the moon, it was suddenly merged
20 II | only one; but this second moon is so small, and its speed
21 II | the uncovered glass the moon filled the projectile with
22 II | in reality heightened the moon’s brilliancy, which in this
23 II | In four days, when the moon will be full, at the very
24 II | than that of the crescent moon, but it was of considerable
25 III | watched the earth and the moon attentively. The earth was
26 III | compared with that of the moon, which was approaching nearer
27 III | earth had been full, the moon would have been new; that
28 III | when we have reached the moon, we shall have time during
29 III | occasioned by the angle which the moon’s orbit makes with that
30 III | space extends beyond the moon?”~“Far beyond it, if the
31 III | Barbicane. “But when the moon is enveloped in this shadow,
32 III | sun, the earth, and the moon, are all in one and the
33 III | coincide with the phases of the moon, and there is an eclipse.
34 III | there was an eclipse of the moon, all our passage would have
35 III | from winter to summer. The moon above, the sun beneath,
36 III | should land on a part of the moon which was utterly barren.
37 III | observations of astronomers, the moon had a low, dense, and thick
38 III | useful as they neared the moon, all these instruments were
39 III | neutral attraction) on to the moon’s surface; a fall which
40 III | the sky! On the other, the moon returning its fire by reflection,
41 IV | Had it not been for the moon, which was increasing above
42 IV | Columbiad in order to attain the moon.”~“You mean to say,” replied
43 IV | would simply fall upon the moon, on account of its weight.”~“
44 IV | earth to the center of the moon, of the radius of the earth,
45 IV | and of the bulk of the moon, I can tell exactly what
46 IV | the projectile between the moon and the earth in considering
47 V | said Barbicane, “if the moon is inhabited, its inhabitants
48 V | because the attraction on the moon’s surface is six times less
49 V | and borne with us to the moon a couple of every kind of
50 V | But, when we arrive in the moon, during its fifteen days
51 VI | the very moment when the moon would be full. Above, the
52 VI | us upon earth. As to the moon, she was considerably larger;
53 VI | conversations all about the moon. Each one brought forward
54 VI | by their fall on to the moon, were inexhaustible matters
55 VI | will not be the same in the moon.”~“Bah!” said Michel, always
56 VI | to have the earth for our moon, to see it rise on the horizon,
57 VI | earth extend beyond the moon?”~“Yes, if we do not take
58 VI | the mean distance from the moon to the earth being sixty
59 VI | there are eclipses, the moon finds itself beyond the
60 VI | do you believe that the moon is an old comet?”~“There’
61 VI | inhabited the earth before the moon became her satellite. Starting
62 VI | scientific men have seen in the moon a comet whose orbit will
63 VI | and the proof is, that the moon has preserved no trace of
64 VI | satellite, could not the moon, when in her perihelion,
65 VI | projectile, “to observe the moon better,” he pretended. During
66 VI | will accompany it to the moon?”~“What astonishes me,”
67 VI | it until it reaches the moon.”~“Ah! fools that we are!”
68 VII | insensibly to themselves. But the moon grew larger to their eyes,
69 VII | hours, exactly at the full moon, they would reach its brilliant
70 VII | confident and joyous hurrah.~The moon was advancing majestically
71 VII | projectile was taking toward the moon’s northern hemisphere, showed
72 VII | the upper border of the moon, a region more suitable
73 VII | constantly observing the moon, in order to see whether
74 VII | space. At that moment, the moon, instead of appearing flat
75 VII | large spots which give the moon the appearance of a human
76 VII | all very well to go to the moon, but how to get back again?”~
77 VII | fail in the depths of the moon, and we need only go 8,000
78 VII | to send a meteor from the moon to the earth, and there
79 VII | the pyroxyle? Will not the moon pass the zenith of Florida?
80 VII | between the earth and the moon! Hurrah for J. T. Maston!”~
81 VII | secret influence of the moon acting upon their nervous
82 VII | shall ever return from the moon, I want to know what we
83 VII | To take possession of the moon in the name of the United
84 VII | Selenites!”~“The empire of the moon belongs to us,” said Nicholl.~“
85 VIII | acclimatize them in the moon, by Jove!”~“Then why did
86 VIII | between the earth and the moon. As it distanced the earth,
87 VIII | weight no longer. If the moon’s and the earth’s densities
88 VIII | attraction, and fall upon the moon by virtue of the excess
89 VIII | it would fall upon the moon by virtue of the excess
90 VIII | attraction will draw us to the moon.”~“Then our feet will be
91 VIII | it perpendicularly to the moon; but, in order that this
92 VIII | normal direction toward the moon. By an inverse motion the
93 VIII | terrestrial; the fall toward the moon was beginning, almost imperceptibly
94 VIII | than on the earth.”~“The moon?”~“Yes, the moon, on whose
95 VIII | The moon?”~“Yes, the moon, on whose surface objects
96 VIII | pounds on the surface of the moon.”~“And our muscular strength
97 VIII | regular Herculeses in the moon!” exclaimed Michel.~“Yes,”
98 VIII | will be satisfied with the moon for the present; there at
99 IX | travelers to observe the moon from that opening while
100 IX | of atmosphere round the moon.~Barbicane had accordingly
101 IX | perceptibly nearing the moon, and evidently succumbed
102 IX | not fall directly on the moon; for its lower part, by
103 IX | earth, the return to the moon, or stagnation on the neutral
104 IX | enough to throw us out of the moon’s attraction.”~“Then they
105 IX | spot incontestible; and the moon passing to the zenith of
106 IX | to say, that sooner the moon will not be at the point
107 IX | the exact moment when the moon would be full; and we are
108 IX | prevented us reaching the moon. No, there has been a deviation.
109 IX | its course sideways to the moon, and with it the mass of
110 IX | served as landmarks upon the moon, which was only two thousand
111 IX | bringing it nearer to the moon, and they might hope that
112 IX | eight o’clock at night. The moon had grown so large in their
113 IX | projectile tended toward the moon; but the centrifugal still
114 IX | was evidently nearing the moon, but it was also evident
115 IX | more to make us miss the moon.”~
116 X | CHAPTER X~THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON~Barbicane had evidently
117 X | could now never reach the moon’s disc.~Would they pass
118 X | their time to observe that moon which they no longer hoped
119 X | travelers were farther from the moon than are the inhabitants
120 X | 6,500 times, brings the moon to within an apparent distance
121 X | topographical details of the moon, observed without glasses,
122 X | toward the earth. Indeed the moon, liquid and pliable in the
123 X | opposite surface of the moon, which is never seen from
124 X | the projectile from the moon diminished very rapidly
125 X | no! We can only reach the moon by a fall, and we are not
126 X | force keeps us under the moon’s influence, but the centrifugal
127 X | hope.~The portion of the moon which the projectile was
128 X | mountains.~At midnight the moon was full. At that precise
129 X | horizon, would have framed the moon in the mouth of the gun.
130 X | would thus have brought the moon to within a distance (apparent)
131 XI | Have you ever seen the moon?” asked a professor, ironically,
132 XI | have heard speak of the moon who have never seen it—
133 XI | existed on the surface of the moon, it must have been wonderfully
134 XI | numerous on the surface of the moon. Nearly all oblong or circular,
135 XI | singular division of the moon’s two hemispheres, joined
136 XII | was bearing it toward the moon’s northern hemisphere. The
137 XII | were able to observe the moon under the most favorable
138 XII | Rocky Mountains brought the moon much nearer; but the terrestrial
139 XII | different aspects of the moon, at the different distances
140 XII | upside down, showing the moon as we see her, the east
141 XII | say in Europe) see the moon in the south— according
142 XII | Patagonia for example), the moon’s west would be quite to
143 XII | s opinion, who gives the moon an atmosphere, though a
144 XII | above the surface of the moon. It is quite visible from
145 XII | last quarter and the new moon, because then the shadows
146 XII | so dazzling in the full moon, and which, passing the
147 XII | all on that side of the moon. Its circumference showed
148 XII | circles on the surface of the moon, and it is easy to see that
149 XII | diameter than that of the moon.”~“And why this peculiar
150 XII | certain conditions of the moon, these ridges would cast
151 XII | was in opposition to the moon, and disappeared as soon
152 XII | Why? if weight on the moon’s surface is six times less
153 XII | the projectile from the moon was not more than six hundred
154 XIII | At that distance from the moon it must have been considerable,
155 XIII | plains than those on the moon present to a terrestrial
156 XIII | existence of only gray on the moon’s surface. In some parts
157 XIII | mountains, on the borders of the moon; but they could not tell
158 XIII | waters, so slight on the moon’s surface, could never have
159 XIII | there are no seasons on the moon’s surface, and that, consequently,
160 XIII | perfect observations on the moon’s surface; but in the void
161 XIII | the habitability of the moon; but the solution still
162 XIII | the opposite face of the moon, we cannot decide.”~“Besides,”
163 XIII | last quarter and the new moon, when the shadows fall from
164 XIII | very inferior to them.~The moon having no atmosphere, the
165 XIII | chiaro-oscuro, does not exist on the moon. Hence the harshness of
166 XIII | only separated from the moon by a distance of fifty miles;
167 XIII | mile. It seemed as if the moon might be touched by the
168 XIII | throw himself on to the moon’s surface! A very useless
169 XIV | projectile was skirting the moon’s north pole at less than
170 XIV | rotary movements of the moon. The projectile, immerged
171 XIV | his fault, but that of the moon, which has come and placed
172 XIV | continued Michel.~“It is the moon!” retorted Nicholl.~An idle
173 XIV | fault of the sun nor of the moon; it is the fault of the
174 XIV | on the inhabitants of the moon.~Barbicane gave his friends
175 XIV | if each hemisphere of the moon is deprived of solar light
176 XIV | up. In a word she has no moon (applying this designation
177 XIV | example, Europe never saw the moon, and she was only visible
178 XIV | for nothing but to see the moon!” replied Michel.~“Very
179 XIV | inhabit the face of the moon opposite to the earth, a
180 XIV | had arrived here when the moon was new, that is to say
181 XIV | greater than the diminutive moon that we know— the earth
182 XIV | either the sun when the moon is full, or on the earth
183 XIV | or on the earth when the moon is new.”~“But,” said Nicholl, “
184 XIV | the sun, it is because the moon is new; that is to say,
185 XIV | the visible face of the moon is lit by the sun, it is
186 XIV | the sun, it is because the moon is full, that is to say,
187 XIV | it is necessary for the moon to be in opposition. These
188 XIV | of the earth between the moon and the sun, can last two
189 XIV | a short distance of the moon—about twenty-five miles
190 XIV | that resistance to the moon’s attraction could not be
191 XIV | never reach any point of the moon. Whither was it going? Was
192 XIV | transmit the groanings of that moon which the Arabic legends
193 XIV | firmament, upon which the moon, like a vast screen, made
194 XV | the neighborhood of the moon, and even near enough for
195 XV | reach the surface of the moon.”~“But how if we get near
196 XV | approach very near to the moon, and not yet fall upon it.”~“
197 XV | either the earth or the moon.~What would become of these
198 XV | choose the time when the moon is at the full.”~“Certainly,”
199 XV | favorable. I allow that the moon, immersed in the sun’s rays,
200 XV | we were drawn round the moon, as at this moment, we should
201 XV | that the time of the full moon was well chosen. But we
202 XV | observing the other side of the moon.”~But the projectile was
203 XV | projectile had turned toward the moon’s surface, and was so held
204 XV | projectile was not nearing the moon, and that it had shifted
205 XV | normally on the surface of the moon.~“A volcano! it is a volcano
206 XV | the interior fires of the moon! That world is not quite
207 XV | surround that part of the moon.”~“Perhaps so,” replied
208 XV | the habitability of the moon.~Barbicane allowed himself
209 XV | appeared. It was like a moon, but an incandescent moon
210 XV | moon, but an incandescent moon whose brilliancy was all
211 XV | is that ill-conditioned moon?”~“A meteor,” replied Barbicane.~“
212 XV | exclaimed, “The invisible moon, visible at last!”~And through
213 XVI | the invisible glory of the moon. In that flash, continents,
214 XVI | curvilinear direction round the moon. Had its course again been
215 XVI | angular diameter of the moon being so little when compared
216 XVI | the southern border of the moon, and in the direction followed
217 XVI | the terminal line of the moon when in one of her octants.~
218 XVI | southern borders of the moon. We are evidently nearing
219 XVI | elliptical orbit around the moon.”~“Indeed!”~“And that it
220 XVI | become her satellite.”~“Moon of the moon!” cried Michel
221 XVI | satellite.”~“Moon of the moon!” cried Michel Ardan.~“Only,
222 XVII | the southern part of the moon, brought by the glasses
223 XVII | there must be air on the moon. As little as you please,
224 XVII | sample. They prove that the moon’s formation, by means of
225 XVII | compared with those of the moon. Measuring the old craters
226 XVII | the most important on the moon, but many others measure
227 XVII | and now what decay! This moon is nothing more than a thin
228 XVII | astronomer.~In observing the full moon in a cloudless sky no one
229 XVII | against the face of the moon!~Tycho forms such a concentration
230 XVII | which the formation of the moon is due. Tycho is situated
231 XVII | Indeed, it is during the full moon that Tycho is seen in all
232 XVII | stereotyped that aspect which the moon formerly presented when
233 XVIII| double irradiation of sun and moon, must have appeared like
234 XVIII| the habitability of the moon. After what they had seen,
235 XVIII| double solution. Is the moon habitable? Has the moon
236 XVIII| moon habitable? Has the moon ever been inhabitable?”~“
237 XVIII| First let us see whether the moon is habitable.”~“To tell
238 XVIII| nights of 354 hours— the moon does not seem habitable
239 XVIII| Nicholl. “But is not the moon habitable for creatures
240 XVIII| seemed to us to move on the moon’s surface. The presence
241 XVIII| the animal kingdom on the moon, they must have fled to
242 XVIII| the habitability of the moon— ‘No! the moon is not habitable.’”~
243 XVIII| habitability of the moon— ‘No! the moon is not habitable.’”~This
244 XVIII| honorable commission, if the moon is not habitable, has she
245 XVIII| indeed I affirm, that the moon has been inhabited by a
246 XVIII| Then,” asked Michel, “the moon must be older than the earth?”~“
247 XVIII| violent in the interior of the moon than in the interior of
248 XVIII| abundantly proves this. The moon and the earth were nothing
249 XVIII| gaseous or liquid, when the moon was solidified by cooling,
250 XVIII| the actual state of the moon its long nights and long
251 XVIII| that at the period when the moon was inhabited, the nights
252 XVIII| the rotary motion of the moon upon her axis was not equal
253 XVIII| alter the motion of the moon at that period when the
254 XVIII| and who can say that the moon has always been a satellite
255 XVIII| Michel Ardan, “that the moon did not exist before the
256 XVIII| succeeded each other on the moon as they succeed each other
257 XVIII| has disappeared from the moon?”~“Yes,” replied Barbicane, “
258 XVIII| evaporation. At this period the moon becoming uninhabitable,
259 XVIII| considered again.~“Has the moon been inhabited?” he asked.~
260 XVIII| was rapidly leaving the moon: the lineaments faded away
261 XIX | position with regard to the moon had altered, and the base
262 XIX | turned toward it, as the moon turns hers to the earth?
263 XIX | see that on leaving the moon it followed a course analogous
264 XIX | of humble servants to a moon whom we are accustomed to
265 XIX | somewhere, even if only on the moon.”~“We ask no better, my
266 XIX | translatory motion round the moon, it had not passed through
267 XIX | same lunar meridian.~On the moon’s side the sight was different;
268 XIX | describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily
269 XIX | farthest point. Speaking of the moon, she is nearest to the earth
270 XIX | remains as a satellite of the moon, we must say that it is
271 XIX | degrees as it neared the moon. This speed would even become
272 XIX | which is bearing us from the moon, and we do not use it!”~“
273 XIX | might turn it from the moon instead of drawing it nearer?”~“
274 XIX | directed rigidly toward the moon; at that moment we may hope
275 XIX | in the negative. No! the moon is not inhabited; no! the
276 XIX | is not inhabited; no! the moon is probably not habitable.
277 XIX | the projectile upon the moon, and now they were going
278 XIX | projectile was still leaving the moon, and turning its conical
279 XIX | precipitate their fall on to the moon, or forever chain them in
280 XIX | watching that impassive moon with a longing eye.~At times
281 XIX | it disappear behind the moon’s south pole, he would see
282 XIX | decided movement toward the moon would suffice, however slight,
283 XIX | Michel Ardan, “on to the moon?”~“On to the earth!”~“The
284 XIX | inferior orb called the moon!”~Barbicane crossed his
285 XX | meridian of Washington.~The moon, then in her last quarter,
286 XX | On the appearance of the moon, their thoughts turned to
287 XX | projectile was to reach the moon when full on the 5th at
288 XX | You know it brings the moon to within four miles of
289 XX | shot; and every time the moon is at her zenith a cargo
290 XX | inhabitants would emigrate to the moon!”~This conversation between
291 XXI | execrating the day which hid the moon from their eyes, and the
292 XXI | become a satellite of the moon, gravitating in an immutable
293 XXI | then passing behind the moon’s invisible disc; but when
294 XXIII| publication of “A Journey to the Moon,” the sale of this paper
295 XXIII| and his friends round the moon had enabled them to correct
296 XXIII| a fossil, and say, “The moon was this, a habitable world,
297 XXIII| inhabited before the earth. The moon is that, a world uninhabitable,
298 XXIII| direct communication with the moon ever be established? Will
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