The most interesting science enlightenment novel - Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is the most exciting of the Verne Ocean Trilogy, the "father of science fiction". Verne from the perspective of biology, geography, physics and other aspects of the ocean for us, while the whole novel also covers history, mythology, politics and other aspects, it can be said that the whole novel contains a wealth of scientific knowledge and literature, is a good reading.

The nineteenth century was the era of Europeans' geographical discoveries and natural explorations. Humboldt's Travel Story, Darwin's Scientific Expedition to the Beagle, Livingston's Diary of An Expedition to Africa... It swept Europe for a time.

Combined with the background of this era, Verne used writing, scientific knowledge and imagination to break free from the shackles of the level of scientific and technological development at that time, and led the people to explore the fields that could not be reached at that time - the seabed ("Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"), the center of the earth ("Journey to the Center of the Earth"), the sky ("Friday on the Balloon"), outer space ("From the Earth to the Moon") ...

Created in 1869, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" relies on the scientific background of the time, with ahead-of-the-curve bold imagination and subtle description, depicting an exciting journey under the sea.

What is more amazing is that the things depicted in the book are not grotesque and bizarre, but can be said to be scientific prophecies, and it is the scientific exploration that modern technology is realizing or about to achieve.

For example, the setting of the Nautilus, 70 meters long, 8 meters wide, with a displacement of 1500 tons, fully equipped thermometers, barometers, hygrometers, compasses, sextants, theodolites, astronomical clocks, telescopes and other scientific research instruments at that time, The German Type 21 and Type 23 submarines, comparable to the Nautilus, the difference between the two was 70 years.

Captain Nemo of the Nautilus, the first person to reach the South Pole, has a detailed and wonderful description of this voyage. Verne filled the imagination of the People of the Time for Antarctica with fiction, and it was only in 1910 that the Norwegian Amundsen first reached the South Pole.

The Nautilus also did an extreme diving experiment at The Sargasso Sea, reaching a depth of 14,000 meters, that is, the Nautilus, which has a double hull and is extremely strong, cannot withstand the huge water pressure for a long time, and the riveting points and partitions of the hull steel are slightly trembling, making people feel the tension of the scene. The extreme diving record of the 2012 Chinese-made manned submersible Jiaolong, which is dedicated to deep diving research, is only 7,000 meters.

The submarine cable laid by the Great Eastern connecting the old and new continents, the all-electric push submarine of the Nautilus, are beyond the prophecy of the times, in 2015, academician Ma Weiming of the Chinese Navy won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the winning project was his great contribution to the field of submarine all-electric push.

Verne's marine world is full of magical colors, which can arouse people's desire to explore, which is the master's cleverness.

In addition to being prescient in scientific exploration, Verne was also quite successful in character building. Ned Rand, a whaler intent on escaping from The Nautilus, Professor Aronnax, a modest and studious professor, Conseil, a loyal and honest attendant, and the mysterious Captain Nemo, are all full-bodied and vivid figures with distinct personalities.

Among them, the role of Captain Nemo is the most magical, he is both kind and cruel, both enthusiastic and indifferent, intoxicated with scientific research away from the noise of human society, like a Frankenstein, but as the story develops, Verne slowly reveals the eternal pain in Captain Nemo's heart for us.

For many years, Captain Nemo has been at the bottom of the sea, regarding the ocean as his own relative, in fact, he is just escaping the ugliness of human society, but what is miao is that the fire of revenge buried in Captain Nemo's heart is not the ugly face of mankind?