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 …
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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. ~ WorldCat.org
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Cosmos
Hardcover, 366 pages
French language
Published Jan. 5, 1981 by Mazarine.
- OCLC Number:
- 427558505
Cosmos
413 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1983 by Futura.
- OCLC Number:
- 12462760
Cosmos.
487 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1984 by Macdonald.
- OCLC Number:
- 655161444
Cosmos
365 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1981 by Macdonald Futura.
Cosmos.
413 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1995 by Abacus.
Cosmos
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1980 by KCET and Carl Sagan Productions Ltd.
Tai yang xi di tan suo
125 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 5, 1982 by Huan hua chu ban shi yeh gong si.
Yü zhou shi kong zhi lü
143 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 5, 1982 by Huan hua chu ban shi yeh gong si.
Ren lei yü yü zhou
143 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 5, 1982 by Huan hua chu ban shi yeh gong si.
Hang xiang wu ji di yü zhou
151 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 5, 1981 by Huan hua chu ban shi yeh gong si.
Cosmos
Mass Market Paperback
English language
Published Oct. 5, 1993 by Ballantine Books.
Cosmos
Paperback
Published Sept. 5, 1993 by Ballantine Books.
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