Verniana — Jules Verne Studies / Etudes Jules Verne — Volume 9 (2016–2017) — 43–56

A propos de quelques sources de La Lune de Jules Verne

Jacques Crovisier

Abstract

We examine some of the sources of information on the Moon possibly used by Jules Verne in his novels: a paper by astronomer Charles Bulard in L'Illustration, a lunar map by Cassini, an anonymous article on the Moon in Le Magasin pittoresque, the Leçons nouvelles de cosmographie by Henri Garcet.

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