Libguide - Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (JtCE) Science Fiction, Scientific Expeditions as Entertainment or Thought Experiments for the Masses? A recently assigned reading for a high school Sci-Fi literature class prompted the creation of this guide. "Science, my boy, is built upon errors; but they are errors that are good to make, for they lead little by little to the truth." Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth Journey to the Center of the Earth was published as serial literature as a bi-weekly chapter in the French magazne, Magasin, put out by Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886) in an ongoing feature called Voyages extraordinaires (Extraordinary Journeys). The column was meant to educate the whole family and featured material of interest to scientists, authors and illustrators. Once the bi-weekly features were published, they would be gathered together into book form and released for purchase as Christmas presents in three editions. The novel w