عنوان

Cosmos /

(Number (ISBN

0394502949

(Number (ISBN

0394715969

(Number (ISBN

9780394502946

(Number (ISBN

9780394715964

Number

b412267

Title Proper

Cosmos /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Carl Sagan

Edition Statement

First edition

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 365 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Based on Carl Sagan's 13-part television series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index

Text of Note

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? -- Appendix 1. Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two -- Appendix 2. The five Pythagorean solids

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Text of Note

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

Astronomy, Popular works.

Science and civilization-- History

Number

Class number

Book number

Sagan, Carl,1934-1996

Date of Transaction

20171205164938.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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