و توجه او به جزئیات یا آنچه خود "درست‌نمایی" می‌نامید، بود که بر روی داستان عالی بعدی تأثیر گذاشت: "از زمین تا کره ماه" نوشته ژول ورن در سال ۱۸۶۵. 
And it was this attention to detail, or to "verisimilitude," as he called it, that would influence the next great story: Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon," written in 1865. 