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Author Carl Sagan
Manufacturer Random House
ReleaseDate 1980-10-12
PublicationDate 1980-10-12

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This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.

The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.

Author Carl Sagan
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9780394502946
Edition 1st
ISBN 0394502949
Label Random House
Manufacturer Random House
NumberOfItems 2
NumberOfPages 365
ProductGroup Book
PublicationDate 1980-10-12
Publisher Random House
ReleaseDate 1980-10-12
SKU 805976576
Studio Random House
Title Cosmos
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