But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
Il ne voyageait pas, il décrivait une circonférence. C'était un corps grave, parcourant une orbite autour du globe terrestre, suivant les lois de la mécanique rationnelle.