TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sagan,Carl
TI  - Cosmos
SN  - 0394502949
AV  - QB44.2 .S235 1980
U1  - 520 22
PY  - 1980///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Einf©ơhrung
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rbgenr
N1  - Based on Carl Sagan's 13-part television series; Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index; 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
N2  - 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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