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• Title:Cosmos / Carl Sagan.
  
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• Related Title:Cosmos (Television program)
  
• Author/Creator:Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Random House, ©1980.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QB44.2 .A235 1980
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Missing - 03-05-1999
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QB44.2 .A235 1980
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Astronomy--Popular works.
  Science and civilization--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Illustrated works.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It 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, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. 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. The author retraces the fifteen billion years of cosmic 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.
  
• Notes:Based on C. Sagan's 13-part television series.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages [350]-355) and index.
  
• ISBN:0394502949
  9780394502946
  0394715969 (pbk)
  9780394715964 (pbk)
  
• Contents:The shores of the cosmic ocean
  One voice in the cosmic fugue
  The harmony of worlds
  Heaven and hell
  Blues for a red planet
  Travelers' tales
  The backbone of night
  Travels in space and time
  The lives of the stars
  The edge of forever
  The persistence of memory
  Encyclopaedia galactica
  Who speaks for Earth?
  Appendix 1. Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two
  Appendix 2. The five Pythagorean solids.