Cosmos

Sagan, Carl

ISBN 10: 0394502949 / ISBN 13: 9780394502946

Published by Random House, Inc., 1980

Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with red and silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page photographs (both in color and black and white). Title pages printed in black and red. The winner of the 1981 Hugo Award for the Best Non-Fiction Book. The book's chapters correspond to the eponymous hit television show produced by Sagan. The show and this book were wildly popular, ushering in a new era of scientific communication and learning for the general public. A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. Average used book with all pages present. Shows signs of wear with some minor defects. See pictures for details. Seller Inventory # 40038

Synopsis:

This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.

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.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic 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.

Cosmos 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, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.

From the Inside Flap: y stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, <b>Cosmos</b> is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.<br><br>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.<br><br>Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic 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.<br><br><b>Cosmos</b> is the story of our lon

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cosmos
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition