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Hector Servadac, Chaps 13 and 14

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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:36:25 -0500
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I have posted these chapters on ibiblio at

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/HS-II-13-us.htm and
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/HS-II-14-us.htm

A sample of the difference between this and Frewer/Roberts is given below:
Chap 14, Rosette talking about his Nerina.

Frewer/Roberts: "Astounding, sir!" he exclaimed. "Yes! Nerina was a planet then; everything that appertained to the planet was determined; but Nerina is a moon now. And do you not think, sir, that we have a right to know as much about our moon as those terresrials"---and he curled his lip as he spoke with a contemptuous emphasis--"know of theirs?"

This translation:
"Captain Servadac," he said, "if the terrestrial astronomers observed Nérina, if they know already its average diurnal movement, the duration of its sidereal revolution, its average distance to the sun, its eccentricity, the longitude of its perihelion, the average longitude of the epoch, the longitude of the ascending node, the inclination of its orbit, all that needs to be started again, because Nérina is no longer a planet of the telescopic zone, but a satellite of Gallia. However, being a moon, I want to study it like a moon, and I do not see why Galliens should not know of the Gallien moon what the "terrestriens" know of the terrestrial moon! "

It was necessary to hear Palmyrin Rosette pronounce this word "terrestriens"!

Although this perhaps is an extreme example, the same sort of thing persists throughout.

nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
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