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050 0 0 _aQB44.2
_b.S235 1980
082 0 0 _a520
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100 1 _aSagan, Carl.
_d1934-1996,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCosmos /
_cCarl Sagan
250 _aFirst edition
260 _aNew York :
_bRandom House,
_cc1980.
300 _axvi, 365p. :
_billustrations ;
_c27 cm
500 _aBased on Carl Sagan's 13-part television series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index
505 0 _aThe 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
520 _aThis 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
650 0 _aAstronomy
_vPopular works.
650 0 _aScience and civilization
_xHistory
655 4 _aEinf©ơhrung
655 7 _aIllustrated works.
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730 0 _aCosmos (Television program)
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