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Re: Undersea Science Fiction Predating Verne

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:53:07 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Yes, in 1863, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley references an underwater
city.
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  From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il]On Behalf Of
Alex Michael Bonnici
  Sent: 26 April 2007 6:22 pm
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  Subject: Undersea Science Fiction Predating Verne


  Hello One and All,
                         Does anyone on this list know of any Undersea
Science Fiction predating Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea". In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Jules Verne hints at the
possibility of building undersea towns and cities. I am referring to the
following passage:


  CHAPTER XVII. FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC

    "Yes, the ocean has indeed circulation, and to promote it, the Creator
has caused things to multiply in it--caloric, salt, and animalculae."

    When Captain Nemo spoke thus, he seemed altogether changed, and aroused
an extraordinary emotion in me.

    "Also," he added, "true existence is there; and I can imagine the
foundations of nautical towns, clusters of submarine houses, which, like the
Nautilus, would ascend every morning to breathe at the surface of the water,
free towns, independent cities. Yet who knows whether some despot----"

    Captain Nemo finished his sentence with a violent gesture. Then,
addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought:

    "M. Aronnax," he asked. "do you know the depth of the ocean?"

  Did Verne or anyone else in the Nineteenth or early Twentieth centuries
develop the idea of Undersea Cities or Colonies in either science fiction or
non fiction science articles or books?


  I beforehand thank you for your help,


  Yours truly,


  Alex Michael Bonnici

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