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From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon

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Foreword
From the Earth to the Moon
The Gun Club
President Barbicane’s Communication
Effect of the President’s Communication
Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge
The Romance of the Moon
The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
The Hymn of the Cannonball
History of the Cannon
The Question of the Powders
One Enemy v. Twenty-five Millions of Friends
Florida and Texas
Urbi et Orbi
Stones Hill
Pickaxe and Trowel
The Fête of the Casting
The Columbiad
A Telegraphic Dispatch
The Passenger of the Atlanta
A Monster Meeting
Attack and Riposte
How a Frenchman Manages an Affair
The New Citizen of the United States
The Projectile Vehicle
The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
Final Details
Fire!
Foul Weather
A New Star
Round the Moon
Preliminary Chapter
Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P.M.
The First Half Hour
Their Place of Shelter
A Little Algebra
The Cold of Space
Question and Answer
A Moment of Intoxication
At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues
The Consequences of a Deviation
The Observers of the Moon
Fancy and Reality
Orographic Details
Lunar Landscapes
The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and a Half
Hyperbola or Parabola
The Southern Hemisphere
Tycho
Grave Questions
A Struggle Against the Impossible
The Soundings of the Susquehanna
J.T. Maston Recalled
Recovered from the Sea
The End
Publisher’s Note
About the Author
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