Chapter 1 The Gun Club 1
Chapter 2 President Barbieane's Announcement 7
Chapter 3 The Effect of Barbicane's Announcement 12
Chapter 4 Reply from the Cambridge Observatory 16
Chapter 5 The Romance ofthe Moon 20
Chapter 6 What It Is Impossible Not to Know and What It Is No Longer Permissible to Believe in the United States 25
Chapter 7 The Hymn to the Projectile 29
Chapter 8 The Story of the Cannon 36
Chapter 9 The Question of Powder 43
Chapter 10 One Enemy Among Twenty-five Million Friends 48
Chapter 11 Florida and Texas 53
Chapter 12 Urbi Et Orbi 58
Chapter 13 Stone Hill 63
Chapter 14 Pick and Trowel 68
Chapter 15 The Festival of Casting 73
Chapter 16 The Cannon 77
Chapter 17 A Cablegram 82
Chapter 18 The Passenger on the Atlanta 83
Chapter 19 A Meeting 93
Chapter 20 Thrust and Counterthrust 100
Chapter 21 How a Frenchman Settles a Quarrel 107
Chapter 22 A New Citizen of the United States 114
Chapter 23 The Projectile Coach 118
Chapter 24 The Longs Peak Telescope 124
Chapter 25 Final Details 129
Chapter 26 Fire! 134
Chapter 27 Cloudy Weather 140
Chapter 28 A New Heavenly Body 144