<p>From the Earth to the Moon is a novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons aficionados, and their attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three people ? the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet ? in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.<br><br>It has been some time since the end of the Amer...