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Cosmos - The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation (Paperback, Reissue) Loot Price: R288
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Cosmos - The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation (Paperback, Reissue)

Carl Sagan

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Thirteen profusely illustrated chapters to match 13 television programs this fall featuring prolific, peripatetic Carl Sagan as author/host. The cosmos is, as he says, everything there is, or was, or will be. For Sagan it is romance, drama, adventure, discovery - and a peg to allow him to write about favorite themes: the origins of life here, and possibly There, evolution, intelligence, cosmology, communication. Some of the chapters focus on familiar planetscapes; hostile Venus, maybe-microbial Mars. Others set the grand scene - the 15-billion-year-old universe, the takeoff of life forms on Earth with the first multicellular creatures. In many ways this is vintage Sagan, asking questions with schoolboy curiosity, conveying facts with irrepressible zest, sprinkling literary quotes and illusions along the way, and stirring all with bits of gossip, anecdotes, and tales of visionaries and fools. Velikovsky comes in for his usual raps. We hear about Kepler's sad marriage and Newton's lifelong virginity. In the end we are smitten with Sagan's zeal to find out who is out there; to set up the radio telescopes and listen; to hope that our feeble communications are overheard, and that some day we get there or that supergalactic explorers arrive. Sagan at his best. (Kirkus Reviews)
This work is the story of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution, transforming matter and life into consciousness, how science and civilization grew up together and the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. The book aims to make scientific ideas accesssible and exciting. It is based on the television series of the same name. Subjects covered include the ancient library of Alexandria, the death of the sun, the evolution of galaxies, space missions and hieroglyphics.

General

Imprint: Abacus
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 1983
Authors: Carl Sagan
Dimensions: 199 x 128 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 413
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-0-349-10703-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration
LSN: 0-349-10703-3
Barcode: 9780349107035

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