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.
American astronomer and science populariser, author of Cosmos and Contact. He was one of the most influential voices in planetary astronomy and in the defence of critical thinking in the 20th century.
