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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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The three friends drank to the union of the earth and hersatellite. And, as if he had not already done enough for the generouswine which he had distilled on the slopes of Burgundy, the sunchose to be of the party. At this moment the projectile emergedfrom the conical shadow cast by the terrestrial globe, and therays of the radiant orb struck the lower disc of the projectiledirect, occasioned by the angle which the moons orbit makeswith that of the earth, The sun ! exclaimed Michel Ardan. No doubt, replied Barbicaue ; I expected it. But, said Michel, the conical shadow which the earthleaves in space extends beyond the moon ? Far beyond it, if the atmospheric refraction is not taken intoconsideration, said Barbicane. But when the moon is en-veloped in this shadow, it is because the centres of the threestars, the sun, the earth, and the moon, are all in one and thesame straight line. Then the nodes coincide with the phases ofthe moon, and there is an eclipse. If we had started when there
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THE SUN CnOSE TO BE OF THE IARTY. (p. na.) THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER. 173 was an eclii^se of the moon, all oui- passage would have been inthe shadow, which would have been a pity. Why? Because, though we are floating in space, our projectile,bathed in the solar rays, will receive their light and heat. Iteconomizes the gas, which is in every respect a good economy. Indeed, under these rays which no atmosphere can temper,either in temperature or brilliancy, the projectile grew warm andbright, as if it had passed suddenly from winter to summer. Themoon above, the sun beneath, were inundating it with their fire. It is pleasant here, said Nichol. I should think so, said Michel Ardan, With a little earthspread on our aluminium planet we should have green peas intwenty-four hours. I have but one fear, which is that the wallsof the projectile might melt. Calm yourself, my worthy friend, replied Barbicane; theprojectile withstood a very much higher temperatuie than this asit slid through the stra

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