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Cosmos

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Ballantine Books 1985Description: xxi, 324 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 520 SAG-C .PS
Contents:
Introduction -- Shores of the cosmic ocean -- One voice in the cosmic fugue -- Harmony of worlds -- Heaven and hell -- Blues for a red planet -- Travelers' tales -- Backbone of night -- Travels in space and time -- Lives of the stars -- Edge of forever -- Persistence of memory -- Encyclopedia galactic -- Who speaks for earth? -- Appendix 1: Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two -- Appendix 2: Five Pythagorean solids -- For further reading -- Index.
Summary: Overview: The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way. Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together.
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Introduction -- Shores of the cosmic ocean -- One voice in the cosmic fugue -- Harmony of worlds -- Heaven and hell -- Blues for a red planet -- Travelers' tales -- Backbone of night -- Travels in space and time -- Lives of the stars -- Edge of forever -- Persistence of memory -- Encyclopedia galactic -- Who speaks for earth? -- Appendix 1: Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two -- Appendix 2: Five Pythagorean solids -- For further reading -- Index.

Overview: The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way. Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together.

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