Who was he? How did he know so much about science?

Both of these answers will be revealed if you read on.

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• Jules Verne was a normal boy who was going to study law but, he didn’t go to a single day of law school. Instead, he took advantage of the trip to Paris and started his career. At first Jules wanted to be a dramatist but soon switched over to a writer. When at a friend’s wedding he fell in love with a woman named Honorine.

• Inspired by a friends attempt to build a balloon that would be two stories high and fly around from place to place, Jules started writing what would soon become Five Weeks In A Balloon. After four attempts to get it published, he meets his final and favorite publisher, Hetzel. Hetzel likes the story but has Verne add to it. The book was a major hit just like Jules’s next books: Journey From The Earth To The Moon, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, and The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras. People were barely able to withstand the wait between books. Jules later started his masterpiece that was know as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

• Jules knew so much about science from books. He would check out books from his local library. Once he sold his first book, he bought his own books. This proves that he was probably a good reader and enjoyed reading. Jules used personal experiences and what he learned from books to help him write books.

• Jules Verne was born in the year 1828 and died on March 24, 1905. I got my information from the book Jules Verne: The man who invented the future By Franz Born.

• Five Weeks In A Balloon

• Journey From The Earth To the Moon

• Journey To The Center Of The Earth

• The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

• Around The World In Eighty Days