Cosmos / Carl Sagan ; with a new foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson ; introduction by Ann Druyan.
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Details
- Edition
- Ballantine Books Trade Paperback edition.
- Description
- xxix, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
- Note
- Original edition published: New York : Random House, 1980.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-383) and index.
- Contents
- Reflections on Carl Sagan's Cosmos / by Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Foreword by Ann Druyan -- Introduction -- 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? -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two -- Appendix 2. The five Pythagorean solids.
- Summary
- Sagan's classic of popular science retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness. Includes discussions of such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.--Adapted from publisher description.
- Subject
- Astronomy -- Popular works.
- Cosmology -- Popular works.
- Science -- Popular works.
- Astronomy.
- Cosmology.
- Science.
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Added Title
- Cosmos (Television program)
- ISBN
- 0345539435 (acid-free paper)
- 9780345539434 (acid-free paper)