Jules Verne was [originaltext] Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 18

Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828. [11]He was not an inventor and he was not a scientist, but he read a great many scientific books. He had a very strong imagination and he loved adventure. He wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. For example，one book was called From the Earth to the Moon. In this book, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon. They did this in a hollow "ship" fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea. It was not far from where the first real moon travelers landed in July 1969, about a hundred years later! Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000Leagues Under the Sea. In those days, submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine in this book is called Captain Nemo, and he and his crew have many strange adventures and find many strange things at the bottom of the ocean. [12]In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge as well as his imagination in describing future inventions. Sometimes he was wrong, of course, [13]but often the accuracy of his descriptions was very surprising.