Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN AL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan's collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring 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.

Praise for Cosmos

Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.--The Plain Dealer

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third--his mind's--on the human condition.--Newsday

Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . . shimmers with a sense of wonder.--The Miami Herald

Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.--Cosmopolitan

Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated.--The New York Times Book Review

Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed astronauts for journeys to the moon. His Peabody Award-winning public television series, Cosmos, has been seen by more than 500 million people in over sixty countries, and the accompanying book spent seventy weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The author of thirty books, Sagan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence in 1978, and his novel Contact, is now a major motion picture.
In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National Science Foundation declared that his research transformed planetary science ... his gifts to mankind were infinite.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780394502946
ISBN 10	0394502949
Title	Cosmos
Author	Carl Sagan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1980-10-12
Number of pages	365
Prizes	Winner of Hugo Award (Nonfiction) 1981
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