by Carl Sagan · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432036262
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Cosmos is a masterpiece by Carl Sagan that explores science in its broadest human context, narrating how science and civilization grew together. This book tells the story of our long journey of discovery, highlighting the forces and individuals who shaped modern science, from Democritus and Hypatia to Kepler, Newton, and more. Sagan takes us through spacecraft missions, research in the Library of Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the origin of life, the evolution of galaxies, and the origins of matter, the sun, and worlds. A cosmic journey of fifteen billion years that has transformed matter into life and consciousness, allowing the cosmos to marvel about itself.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played an active role in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager programs. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and several popular science books, starting with The Cosmic Connection. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Dragons of Eden.
