verne journey to the center of the earth

Goetaborg in Stockholm, asking him to confirm his findings. After Oliver identifies some etchings on the rock as those of Saknussemm, an Icelandic scientist who years earlier descended into the interior of the earth, never to return, he sends a dispatch to his colleague, Prof. When his prize pupil, Alec McEwen, presents him with a lava paperweight to commemorate the occasion, Oliver discovers that encased within the Italian lava is a rock from Iceland, halfway across the world from the volcano. But Halley's basic idea that the Earth wasn't a homogenous block of rock, but instead had a structure in the form of moving concentric spherical shells, ultimately did find expression in our modern understanding of Earth.In Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1880, Professor Oliver Lindenbrook is knighted to the acclaim of his colleagues and students. The 'inhabited' notion went on to provoke quite a bit of science fiction, as well as some real attempts to find an entrance to these inner worlds and get at their postulated wealth, but otherwise turned out to be a dud. Halley further went on to suggest that each of these shells could be inhabited. One or more of these shells produced the Earth's magnetic field, and its movement relative to our, outermost, shell resulted in the changes to the position of the magentic poles. To explain this motion, Halley suggested that the Earth wasn't solid, but instead composed of a series of concentric shells. In the late 17th century, Halley was interesed in observations that showed that the Earth's magnetic poles wandered around. In this they were inspired by a scientific proposal by Edmund Halley (of Halley's comet fame) that turned out to be not completely off the mark.Īs described by David Standish in his entertaining book Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth’s Surface, before Halley, most people assumed that the Earth underfoot was pretty much solid rock all the way through, with some lava and water thrown for good measure.

Frasier's character, (Professor Trever Anderson), his nephew and local Icelandic guide find themselves having hair-raising adventures as they voyage through underground seas and landscapes populated with all manner of bizzare plants and animals. Verne's original book was published in 1864, a time when quite a few people took very seriously the idea that the Earth was hollow-and inhabited. The latest cinematic version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth opens this Friday, staring the ever-likeable Brendan Frasier.

Verne journey to the center of the earth