| Descript |
xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
The shores of the cosmic ocean -- One voice in the cosmic fugue -- The harmony of worlds -- Heaven and hell -- Blues for a red planet -- Travelers' tales -- The backbone of night -- Travels in space and time -- The lives of the stars -- The edge of forever -- The persistence of memory -- Encyclopaedia galactica -- Who speaks for Earth? -- Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two -- The five Pythagorean solids. |
| Note |
Based on Carl Sagan's 13-part television series. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index. |
| Summary |
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. -- from publisher. |
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This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It 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, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. 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. The author retraces the fifteen billion years of cosmic 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. |
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Astronomy -- Popular works.
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Science and civilization -- History.
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Astronomie (CaQQLa)201-0002531 -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation. (CaQQLa)201-0376978 |
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Sciences et civilisation (CaQQLa)201-0022076 -- Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888 |
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Astronomy (OCoLC)fst00819673
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Science and civilization (OCoLC)fst01108517
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Astronomie (DE-588)4003311-9
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Weltall (DE-588)4079154-3
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Astronomy.
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illustrated books. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300311820 |
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Television programs (OCoLC)fst01726253 |
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Illustrated works (OCoLC)fst01423873 |
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628 |
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Popular works (OCoLC)fst01423846 |
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Illustrated works. |
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Illustrated works. |
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Ouvrages illustrés. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000523 |
| Alt Title |
Cosmos (Television program)
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| ISBN |
0394502949 (hardcover) |
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9780394502946 (hardcover) |
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0394715969 (paperback) |
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9780394715964 (paperback) |
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0375508325 |
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9780375508325 |
| LC CARD # |
80005286 |
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