Speculative
From the Earth to the Moon
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA gun club with nothing left to shoot at decides, with straight-faced enthusiasm, to build a cannon and fire themselves at the moon instead. Verne worked out the mathematics of the launch with startling accuracy for a century that had not yet built a rocket. He got the destination almost exactly right and the method almost entirely wrong, which is a fair trade for 1865.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Selenite Reading Outpost, on the Moon
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4552. In the public domain in the United States.