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From the Earth to the Moon tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts and their attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three peoplethe Gun Clubs president his Philadelphian armor-making rival and a French poetin a projectile with the goal of a moon landing The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements f...Seguir leyendo