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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was an author, poet, and dramatist who lived in France. The Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure books that included Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days, were created as a result of his partnership with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1872). His books, which are usually well-documented, are set in the second half of the nineteenth century and take into consideration technical advancements at the period. Mind Map By: Tina Gharibi- G.9

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was one of the most famous French novelists of all time.

Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, a busy maritime port city. There, Verne was exposed to vessels departing and arriving, sparking his imagination for travel and adventure. While attending boarding school, he began to write short stories and poetry.

Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he is the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.

He wrote several plays, worked as secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique (1852–54), and published short stories and scientific essays in the periodical Musée des familles.

He wrote some of literature's most famous adventure novels, including seminal works such as "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and "Around the World in 80 Days".

Verne's influence extends beyond literature and film into the world of science and technology, where he inspired generations of scientists, inventors, and explorers. In 1954 the United States Navy launched the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, named for Verne's Nautilus.

In "From the Earth to the Moon", Jules Verne was able to capture humanity's fascination with the moon and eventually Space travel. Describing them as projectiles, the author imagined a world where humanity would launch themselves via spacecraft into the moon similar to that of a gun and a bullet.

Jules Verne published Robur the Conqueror, a novel in which the main character built an aircraft out of pressboard (so it had great strength and light at the same time) that flew via rotors, much like modern helicopters do. Additional rotors at the bow and stern served to propel the invention towards the heavens. Verne took the existing helicopter prototypes and imagined how they would develop.

Jules Verne was far from being a scientist, but his passion for technology and the progress being made at the time served to introduce many of the inventions that were to come and that, over time, have ended up becoming ordinary elements of our every-day life.

Mind Map By: Tina Gharibi- G.9