![]() ![]() Added to this, Verne appears to have been something of an Americanophile, at least based upon his literary output, which often used America as a setting. ![]() Verne preferred to base his stories of incredible journeys around real science, or what the science of his day might be capable of achieving what was plausible. This is significant because it is the advances in ballistics achieved during the war that is the basis of Verne’s science in this novel. The novel had been written during the war. Jules Verne published From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, towards the end of the American Civil War. ![]()
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