Jules Verne's Around the Moon – Bayard & Neuville Engraving, 1870

A tiny projectile-capsule drifts helplessly past a vast crescent Moon, dwarfed by its cratered, shadow-draped surface against a star-flecked void. This striking wood engraving captures the pivotal lunar flyby from Jules Verne's 'Autour de la Lune,' rendered with meticulous crosshatching that gives the Moon a haunting, tactile weight. The brilliant crescent blaze contrasts with the deep shadow across the globe, conveying both the sublime scale of space and the fragile audacity of Verne's imagined space travelers.