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Cosmos
Published 1980.ISBN-13: 978-0345539434
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 venture into the vast ocean of
space.
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Published 1994.ISBN-13: 978-0345376596
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Contact
Published 1985.ISBN-13: 978-0671004101
Who – or what – is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe.
In Contact, he predicts its future – and our own.
