Cosmos

Sagan, Carl

ISBN 10: 0394502949 / ISBN 13: 9780394502946

Published by Random House, New York, 1980

Signed by Sagan on title page. First edition, first printing (with number line terminating at '2,' as is standard for Random House first printings). Quarto in boards over cloth spine. B&W and color photos. Very light softening to corners and spine tips, slight fading to boards along top edge; light foxing to textblock top, faint toning to endpapers, else interior clean, crisp, and bright; light wear to price-clipped jacket, 1/2" tear to jacket rear cover at top. A very nice signed copy of this important work. Seller Inventory # 045076

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, New York
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
Signed: Signed and Inscribed By Author
Edition: 1st Edition