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Title: From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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able for their observation. Indeed, nothing could equal the splendour of this starry world,bathed in limpid ether. Its diamonds set in the heavenly vaultsparkled magtiificently. The eye took in the firmament from theSouthern Cioss to the North Star, those two constellations whichin 12.000 years, by reason of the succession of equinoxes,will resign their part of polar stars, the one to Canopus in theBouthorn hemisphere, the other to Wega in the northern. Ima-gination loses itself in this sublime Infinity, amidst which thel.n.jectile was gravitating, like a new star created by the hand ofman. From a natural cause, these constellations shone with asoft lustre ; they did not twinkle, for there was no atmospherewJiich, l)y the intervention of its layers unequally dense and ofditferont degrees of humidity, produces this scintillation. Thesestars were soft eyes, looking out into the dark night, amidst thesilence of absolute space. Long did the travellers stand mute, watching the constellated
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NOTHING COULD EQUAL THE SPLENDOR OF THTSSTAKRY WORLD. (r. 250.) THE NIGHT OF 354 HOURS AND A HALF. 257 firmament, upon which the moon, like a vast screen, made anenormous black hole. But at length a painful sensation drewthem from their watchings. This was an intense cold, whichsoon covered the inside of the glass of the scuttles with a thickcoating of ice. The sun was no longer warming the projectilewith its direct rays, and thus it was losing the heat stored up inits walls by degrees. This heat was rapidly evaporating intospace by radiation, and a considerably lower temperature was theresult. The humidity of the interior Avas changed into ice uponcontact with the glass, preventing all observation. Nicholl consulted the thermometer, and saw that it had fallento seventeen degrees (centigrade) below zero.^ So that, in spiteof the many reasons for economizing, Barbicane, after havingbegged light from the gas, was also obliged to beg for heat. Theprojectiles low temperature was no longer

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