This month marks the 190th anniversary of Jules Verne’s birth, on February 8, 1828. Known as the Father of Science Fiction, Verne not only authored classic adventure novels such as From the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but he also influenced the Surrealist movement and the Steampunk aesthetic, and inspired figures such as the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.
Image: Jules Verne Algerie. Credit: "L'Algerie" Magazine, 15 June 1884 Wikimedia
