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Re: Annotated Earth to Moon

From: Ron Miller <rmiller~at~crosslink.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:01:10 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

The only faults I've found with the Annotated From the Earth to the
Moon (other than the big one: that it doesn't include the sequel)
have mostly to do with Miller's unfamiliarity with astronautics. For
one example, he seems extremely confused as to what "g" or "g
force" means and most of his references to it make no sense. And
trying to make a 900-foot hole in the ground into a phallic symbol .
. . one hardly knows what to say.

Ron Miller

> Norm Wolcott wrote:
> >
> > I have just purchased a copy of W.J. Miller's "Annotated JV" The bits I
> > have read so far are fascinating, each chapter almost a lecture in itself.
> > Too bad he hasn't done a lot of books the same way. 20K would be a great
> > one. I was particularly interested in Chapter I as I used to work at the
> > Dahlgren Laboratory, where the descendants of the Dahlgren gun are still
> > fired occasionally, their shells being deposited 25 miles downriver in the
> > middle of Chesapeake Bay (duck!)
>
> He did do 20K (Crowell, 1976). I wish that the second half of FROM THE
> EARTH TO THE MOON had been annotated (ie A TRIP AROUND THE MOON). Some
> other good ones would be JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, and AROUND
> THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
>
> James
Received on Tue 01 Feb 2000 - 14:01:59 IST

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