{"product_id":"from-the-earth-to-the-moon-jules-verne","title":"From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVerne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eros \u0026 Anthos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54141629137224,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/6956\/7560\/files\/Screenshot2026-09-26at12.26.32PM.png?v=1790415235","url":"https:\/\/erosanthos.com\/products\/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-jules-verne","provider":"Eros \u0026 Anthos","version":"1.0","type":"link"}