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Jules Verne (Nantes8 February 1828 – 24 March Amiens1905) was a French writer and pioneer in the science fiction genre.

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[hide]*1 early life

Life Course[Edit][]

Jules Gabriel Verne was born as the oldest of the five children of Pierre Verne, a Parisian lawyer, and his wife Sophie Allotte de la Fuÿe. He grew up in Île Feydeau inNantes. In 1847 he went to Paris to study law. He married in 1857 with Honorine de Viane, a widow who already had two daughters. In 1861 they got a son, Michel Jules Verne.

His book Cinq semaines and balloon (five weeks in a balloon) meant his breakthrough in 1863 , and was published in several languages. From then on there were two or more annually published volumes of his hand.

The family settled in 1871 Verne in Amiens. Jules Verne In 1888 was elected to the City Council. He was particularly concerned with cultural Affairs, such as theatres (for example the city circus now Cirque Jules Verne), schools and urban development. Verne was re-elected three times (in 1892, 1896 and 1900).

Jules Verne died at Amiens at the age of 77, his grave can be found in Amiens. The ' musée Jules Verne ' is located in Nantes.

Clairvoyant[Edit][]

Verne is best known as the writer who "the future predicted". He described in his books were regarded at the time as many things that fantasy, but later in an impressive number of cases were reality. He envisioned a trip to the Moon that just over 100 years later realized for the first time was during the Apollo program. But there are also key differences between this book and space to point to. So are the Moon travelers of Jules Verne fired using a huge cannon and not launched with a rocket. The Moon travelers landed on the Moon, but were flying around it and then return, something later also in the Apollo program would happen to Apollo 8 (1968, planned) and Apollo 13 (1970, unplanned, after a blast on board). Also worth noting is that the place of launch at Cape Canaveral was and the place where Apollo 11 came down on Earth, but differed with the bullet a few kilometres from the book by Verne.

He further provided for the long-distance travel in air balloons and submarines under the ice of the world tours.

[1][2]"Before my eyes struggled a terrible monster." (20,000 Leagues under the sea).

His gift to these predictions, however, was based not only on fantasy. He was very intelligent, was very well aware of the technical developments of his time, did solid research and applied scientific logic far.

Because the 19th century books are, the information is sometimes obsolete. So makes some people in Hector Servadac a journey on a comet. While the Comet from the Earth moves, it drops no further than 60 degrees below zero because Jules Verne assumed (based on information available at the time) that that absolute zero is, while now known to the zero point on 273.15 degrees below zero. And in to the center of the Earth take the protagonists a stock supplies and equipment which in reality would have been not to lift.In from the Earth to the Moon feel the travelers becoming the Earth's gravity, when in reality they would have been weightless.

Analysis[Edit][]

Many of Verne's novels can be considered popular science geography or physics packed in an exciting adventure and contain an educational element. [source? ]The skills of engineer Cyrus Smith have not seek the life of the settlers of the mysterious island , but are a practical lesson in physics and chemistry. Professor Lidenbrock will not take any expedition to the center of the Earth to carry out scientific research, but to give a popular exposition of geology. And the evil engineer Robur the Conqueror used his helicopter to the president and the Secretary of the kidnap, but to ballonvaardersclub the reader into the secrets of the aerodynamics.

[3][4]Around the world in 80 days

The books also contain a adult humor, which even now is up to date shows [citation needed], as in around the world in 80 days when Inspector Fix of the consul in Suez hears:

"The passports after all nowhere else than serve to hinder the movements of a decent man and a villain at his flight be helpful!"

Perhaps even more topical is the next one out of five weeks in a balloon:

"Obstacles are there to be overcome," Ferguson replied earnestly, "and what the dangers are concerned, who in the world can flee danger? There's always danger in life; It can be very dangerous, to sit at the table or to put the hat on the head; You should see what must still be done, as if it had already happened, and what is happening now is you should see, as if it still has to happen, because the future is now very close. "

Expenditure in Netherlands[Edit][]

[5][6]Robur the Conqueror

In Netherlands was the work until 2005 pretty much just yet antiquarisch available. In 2005, the best known titles, including around the world in 80 daysjourney to the center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues under the sea reissued in hardcover.

Esperanto[Edit][]

[7][8]His home in Le Crotoy

Verne was interested in a wide range of topics, including Esperanto. The book with the tentative title Voyage d recommended études (study tour) (unpublished until 1993) contains 50 pages about Esperanto. There it says one of his heroes: "Esperanto is the surest and fastest vehicle to civilization". And he said to his followers: "the key to a common language, lost in the Tower of Babel, can be found in the use of Esperanto". The book-which every memory of Esperanto is gone-would be completed by his son. It was given the title L'étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac (1920).

Song[Edit][]

Peru made the album In 1991 Moon. There is also a song on that album named after Jules Verne.

Bibliography[Edit][]

Short stories

Secondary Literature[Edit][]

  • Franquinet, e.: Jules Verne, his person and his work. Eindhoven: the Pilgrim, 1942-1943.
  • Franquinet, e.: Jules Verne and his extraordinary voyages. Zeist: De Haan, 1964.
  • Costello, Peter: Jules Verne. The man who invented the future. Utrecht [etc.]: the Spectrum, 1979.
  • Introduction by Marcel Baudet in Jules Verne's Master Zacharias and the eternal Adam. Meppel [etc.]: tree, 1978.
  • W, Kees and rust, Frits: Jules Verne bibliography. Jules Verne society, 2007.
  • Jules Verne society, Guus Luijters and members: under the spell of Jules Verne. Soesterberg: Aspekt, 2005.
  • Vajpayee, Karol: the Jules Verne's Guide. Rijswijk: Elmar, 2005
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