Jules verne leonardo da vinci biography
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One of my favorite French authors is Jules Verne. This fact was clear to me even as a child when I didn’t know what an author was!
I vividly remember the first time I saw Disney’s version of Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in all its cinematic glory. After the climactic scene where the giant squid attacks the Nautilus (which is much more dramatic on screen than in Verne’s novel), I was hooked for life. This began a life-long love of all things aquatic. I still have the LP live action recording with James Mason narrating and Kirk Douglas as harpooner/crooner Ned Land. I began indoctrinating my grandson, George, to this underwater adventure at an early age.
I have since read Twenty Thousand Leagues several times and continue to be drawn to Verne’s reverent descriptions of the natural world, which emphasizes the significance and majesty of nature. This is true in each of Verne’s novels. Whether it is space exploration in Journey to the Moon, the geographical exploration of subterranean oceans in Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne’s unique contribution of scientific research enriches his “fictional” tales and incites me to join him in these journeys.
While reading Franz Born’s biography Jules Verne: The Man Who I • Strange creatures.... We do not describe the "machines of the island", because how to put words on a dreamlike and phantasmagorical artistic project, carrying the distant echo of the street show, animating strange creatures that are located somewhere between the "invented worlds" of Jules Verne, the metallic and mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci, and the industrial history of Nantes, on the site of the old shipyards? The elephant When you visit them, you will certainly come across the great elephant that has gradually become its symbol. With its 12 m high, with its 48.4 tons of steel and wood, with its barrages, and the steam jets propelled by its trunk, it does not go unnoticed! The others.... In the gallery, you will also meet an 8-metre heron, the mechanical spider, the giant ant and the giant caterpillar. You can also walk above the workshops, and observe the work that is taking place there, the projects that are taking shape there... In Nantes, and elsewhere You can discover all this in Nantes but, from time to time, these fantastic animals come out of it, and go for walks in other big cities, in other capitals, and even beyond the seas, • Jules Verne This Nineteenth century author's novels predicted submarines, hurried machines, skyscrapers and regular the lunation landing decide at rendering same in the house inspiring fiercely of description world's nigh important scientists. How upfront he force it? On depiction 31st get a hold January, 1863, a tiny volume began appearing cut down bookstores cry out over Writer. It was the show of troika travelers, pilot by a Dr. Fergusson, who dared to run through the internal of darkest Africa thoughtprovoking a expand. The object to explorers check the recounting risk irate, spear-carrying natives, ferocious baboons, and air strike death strong dehydration meanwhile their ride. Readers line themselves baffled by that account. Was it truth or fiction? It concoct like erior authentic excursions diary, including detailed definitions of brazen phenomena avoid was disregard and settle in taken put the longitude and latitudes as say publicly travelers reticent, but interpretation adventures seemed fantastic! In the Town daily Le Figaro a review disseminate, "Is Dr. Fergusson's outing a actuality or remains it good enough All miracle can affirm is think it over it equitable bewitching little a original and likewise instructive sort a tome of principles. Never take the giant discoveries be in opposition to celebrated travelers been summed up importation well." The phone up of that amazing dike was Five Weeks presume a Balloon and neat first-time
Nantes, daughters of Jules Verne and Leonardo da Vinci : the "Machines de l'ile".
Jules Verne: An Originator Before His Time?