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Author: jules verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 376
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A unique edition with 100 original illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux. Off on a Comet was first published in France under the original title, Hector Servadac. Later publications changed the name to Off on a Comet. It is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake. During a new collision of the comet with Earth two years later, the castaways return to earth in a balloon they put together
Author: jules verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
A unique edition with 100 original illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux. Off on a Comet was first published in France under the original title, Hector Servadac. Later publications changed the name to Off on a Comet. It is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake. During a new collision of the comet with Earth two years later, the castaways return to earth in a balloon they put together
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 372
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Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 374
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Off on a Comet is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet.
Author: Jules Gabriel Verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
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One of Jules Verne's strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag ISBN: 3849645762 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 465
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This masterpiece relates entirely to the science of astronomy. It is a sequel to "All Around The Moon," and continues the career of Hector Servadac and 'his friends on the comet " Gallia," and relates their approach to the planet Jupiter. It is full of adventures of the most wonderful kind,and is embellished by plenty of very good illustrations.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 377
Book Description
Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
"The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet."
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
One of Jules Verne's strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230105109 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...density, at least, his comet had the advantage over the earth. Nothing further now remained than to apply the investigations thus finished to the determining of the mass or weight. This was a matter of little labor. "Let me see," said the captain; " what is the force of gravity upon the various planets?" "You can't mean, Servadac, that you have forgotten that? But you always were a disappointing pupil." The captain could not help himself: he was forced to confess that his memory had failed him. " Well, then," said the professor, " I must remind you. Taking the attraction on the earth as I, that on Mercury is 1.15, on Venus it is.92, on Mars.5, and on Jupiter 2.45; on the moon the attraction is.16, whilst on the surface of the sun a terrestrial kilograrnme would weigh 28 kilogrammes." " Therefore, if a man upon the surface of the sun were to fall down, he would have considerable difficulty in getting up again. A cannon ball, too, would only fiy a few yards," said Lieutenant Procope. " A jolly battle-field for cowards! " exclaimed Ben Zoof. " Not so jolly, Ben Zoof, as you fancy," said his master; " the cowards would be too heavy to run away." Ben Zoof ventured the remark that, as the smallness of Gallia secured to its inhabitants such an increase of strength and agility, he was almost sorry that it had not been a little smaller still. "Though it could not anyhow have been very much smaller," he added, looking slyly at the professor. " Idiot! " exclaimed Rosette. "Your head is too light already; a puff of wind would blow it away." " I must take care of my head, then, and hold it...
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