Jules Verne's Lunar Projectile in Space — De la Terre à la Lune Engraving

Drawn directly from Jules Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon' (1865) and its sequel 'Around the Moon' (1870), this masterful wood engraving depicts the bullet-shaped aluminum projectile tumbling through star-filled space with the cratered Moon looming in the upper right. The conical capsule — complete with observation windows and a padded base — carries three men and two dogs on humanity's first imagined voyage beyond Earth. A small floating figure or debris drifts to the right, suggesting the harrowing weightlessness Verne described with scientific precision.