Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.
Includes introductory music: “Heaven and Hell” by Vangelis from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage used with permission from Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
Carl Sagan beautifully intertwines scientific fact with elegant and captivating storytelling in … Gives you such an appreciation for the fragility and complexity of the cosmos and of life itself. Carl Sagan beautifully intertwines scientific fact with elegant and captivating storytelling in a way that is digestible to people of all scientific levels of understanding. This book is a great starting point on your intellectual journey to understanding how the universe works on a scientific level. It provides you with a perspective that allows you to cherish life on earth and understand how…
Wonderful read, I love this book. Have read this before, but enjoyed it just as much this time. You are exposed to so many everyday things in a new way..It is an older book and has PBS video to accompany it
A true pleasure and eye-opener What a privilege and joy it was to have read this book. I made my way through it rather slowly because it was so packed full of historical anecdotes, scientific findings, and thought-provoking insights that I needed a break every chapter or so to let ideas mentally sink in. In 13 chapters, Dr Sagan gives us a glimpse into all scales of space and time. From the Big Bang to the formation of the stars and the Earth, through the painstaking evolutionary process that resulted in human beings, to…