If we are talking about how hot the earth could get in Journey, this is how I explained it in 2008 when blogging for Axel
"It is perfectly well known that the internal temperature rises one degree for every 70 feet in depth" I said, "now, admitting this proportion to be constant, and the radius of the earth being fifteen hundred leagues, there must be a temperature of 360,032 degrees at the centre of the earth. Therefore, all the substances that compose the body of this earth must exist there in a state of incandescent gas; for the metals that most resist the action of heat, gold, and platinum, and the hardest rocks, can never be either solid or liquid under such a temperature"
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From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il]On Behalf Of Alex Kirstukas
Sent: 1 August 2010 2:03 pm
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: Re: Differing editions of TM: here VCT
Pardon my ignorance, but which is correct - 2 million or "more than 200,000"?
Alex
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From: Volker Dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Subject: Re: Differing editions of TM: here VCT
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3:41 AM
all in-18-editions of Hetzel (with 43 or 45 chapters), also the Hachette reprints of this edition, have 2 million degrees.
gr. in-8° from the beginning to the end (45 ch.): "more than two hundred thousand degrees".
Curiously, the in-8° of 1896 (Succès scolaires) writes again 2 millions, so the text must have been taken from the in-18.
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Von: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2ster~at~gmail.com>
Gesendet: 31.07.2010 22:05:27
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Betreff: Re: Differing editions of TM: here VCT
Which then would be the editions which have 2 million degrees in chapter 6 yet still with 45 chapters??--the version used by Baldick in 1950 has 2 million degrees, the version used by white apparently in 1874 also with 45 chapters and 2 million degrees. I have a Hachette version post 1920 which has 2 million degrees, 45 chapters, yet otherwise an abridged edition.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Volker Dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de> wrote:
Dear Christian,
I'm not sure about this interpretation. For VCT, in-18 was published in 1864. The corrected and augmented gr. in-8° came out in 1867; these corrections (the new chapter on paleontological facts) were inserted in the in-18 only in the 12th ed. of 1872 (edition not changed in the 1880ies but reprinted then with a new type-setting). But if Verne inserted the new chapter in this edition, he never managed to make minor revisions of the rest of the text (linked to the new chapter), so that, in fact, VCT in-18 after 1872 up tu 1914 offers a slightly mixed version of in-18 of 1864 and gr. in-8° of 1867.
On the other hand, Hetzel published a fourth and neglected version of the novel in the serie "Succès scolaires" (1896 and 1903), in-8°, 316 pages. It has never been verified if these ultimate edition presents finally a synthetic version (I don't think, however, that Verne at this time made any changes). Unfortunately, this edition is very rare. But that is a work which must be done in the future.
Best,
Volker
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Von: "Christian Sánchez" <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Gesendet: 30.07.2010 10:04:11
An: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
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That has to be the explanation for the differences found in VCT: Verne corrected the in-18 but not the in-8 (or the other way round)!
Regards,
Christian
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De: Volker Dehs
Para: Jules Verne Forum
Enviado: miércoles, 28 de julio de 2010 6:58
Asunto: Re: Differing editions of TM
Indeed, Verne corrected the grand in-8°-version of TM AFTER the in-18-version (this was not always the case), but never inserted these corrections in the in-18-version. I compared the first edition (in-18) of 1873 with the last (the 150th of 1913), and the texts are nearly identical. But there are other cases where Verne corrected the in-18-version of a novel, but never changed the gr. in-8°-version... all variants exist in Vernes work, and so finding out the definitive version (or the best corrected one) is a hard work for comparatists!
Best,
Volker
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Von: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Gesendet: 27.07.2010 18:53:36
An: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Betreff: Differing editions of TM
Hi all,
In researching Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, I've come upon a rather confusing textual problem.
In the 1873 first edition (hereafter called "H1873") and the 1884 grand-in-8 edition ("H1884a,") there is a conversation running:
— A pied! s'écrièrent tous les voyageurs.
— Mais à quelle distance est donc cette station? demanda l'un d'eux au conducteur.
— A douze milles, de l'autre côté de la rivière.
— Douze milles dans la neige!» s'écria Stamp W. Proctor.
However, in the 1884 paperback edition ("H1884b") and whatever editions the first three English translators (G. M. Towle, Steven W. White, and Henry Frith) were working from, the same conversation runs:
— Cependant elle n'est qu'à un mille de nous, dit un des voyageurs.
— Un mille, en effet, mais de l'autre côté da la rivière.
— Et cette rivière, ne peut-on la traverser en bateau? demanda le colonel.
— Impossible. Le creek est grossi par les pluies. C'est un rapide, et nous serons forcés de faire un détour de dix milles au nord pour trouver un gué.»
Also, in Chapter III, Fogg has a line running: "Tout de suite. Seulement, je vous préviens que je le ferai à vos frais." The second sentence appears in H1884b and the three translations, but is missing from H1873 and H1884a.
There appear, then, to be two slightly different versions of the book floating around. (They also appear to have a few smaller differences, such as when the "W" appears in Stamp W. Proctor's name, but I haven't tried looking for all of them yet.) Any knowledge of where the different versions came from? And why did both continue to be printed simultaneously?
Thanks,
Alex
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