![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, the idea to go to the moon in this story begins as a result of boredom and a lack of purpose, as members of the Baltimore Gun Club find their hard-won ballistics skills have little use in post-war America. And only that it would be an anachronism, one might even claim Verne to be an exponent of American Exceptionalism, based upon repeated statements in From the Earth to the Moon: “In America, everything is easy, everything is simple, and mechanical difficulties are dead before they are born” “…no matter how great the difficulties, our industrial genius will easily overcome them” “They’ll find a way, you’ll see!” 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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