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An edition of Contact (1985)

Cosmos

1st Edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (96 ratings) ·
  • 699 Want to read
  • 35 Currently reading
  • 129 Have read

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.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
365

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Subjects

Exploration, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Life on other planets, Radio astronomy, Women scientists, Interstellar communication, Interplanetary voyages, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Science Fiction - General, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Extraterrestrial beings, Astronomers, Large type books, political intrigue, First Contact, extraterrestrial life, Fiction, science fiction, general, New York Times reviewed

People

Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Places

Outer space

Times

Generic present day
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Jan 06, 2023, Nova
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Contact
2022, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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2018, Ediciones B
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2018, Nova
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2016, Simon & Schuster
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Contacto
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Contact
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2001, Planeta
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1997, Penguin Random House
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Table of Contents

Shores of the cosmic ocean
One voice in the cosmic fugue
Harmony of worlds
Heaven and hell
Blues for a red planet
Travelers' tales
Backbone of night
Travels in space and time
Lives of the stars
Edge of forever
Persistence of memory
Encyclopaedia galactica
Who speaks for Earth?

Edition Notes

Based on C. Sagan's 13-part television series.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [350]-355.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Cosmos (Television program)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
520
Library of Congress
QB44.2 .S235

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 365 p. :
Number of pages
365

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24740450M
Internet Archive
cosmossaga00saga
ISBN 10
0394502949
ISBN 13
9780394502946
LCCN
80005286
OCLC/WorldCat
6280573

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In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.

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By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.
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