Post by glactus on Jul 28, 2011 0:51:45 GMT
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was born in Nantes, Brittany in France in 1828 and died at the age of 77 in 1905. He thrilled all in his day with his brilliant novels, is the founder of science fiction and from his beginnings came the inspiration to go where no man has been before and to explore the unknown.
20,000 leagues under the sea
As a teenager he was sent to boarding school at the Saint Donatien College where he developed a great interest in travel and exploration, a passion he showed as a writer of adventure stories and science fiction.
Journey to the center of the Earth
One of his teachers was the French inventor Brutus de Villeroi, professor of drawing and mathematics at the college in 1842, and who later became famous for creating the US Navy's first submarine, the USS Alligator. De Villeroi may have inspired Verne's conceptual design for the Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", although no direct exchanges between the two men have been recorded.
Around the world in 80 days
Jules Verne was best known for his novels "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870), "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873).
In his quest to reach for the stars it is said that the great German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun could not keep away from Jules Verne's novels, such was the impact of this great science fiction writer.
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