This is a book about Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton; about the Milky Way, about gaseous planets without a surface, and a universe of a hundred billion galaxies. It is about whirlpool galaxies and the ancient Library at Alexandria, Egypt - the place "where we humans first collected, seriously and systematically, the knowledge of the world."
Still as relevant today as it was when it first came out in 1980, Cosmos is a book that I'd recommend to anyone and everyone. Watching the original series after you read each chapter is an addition way to enjoy this incredible work by Carl Sagan.
This book is about man's curiosity towards the stars and how this curiosity has spurred our scientific research. He explains, in very understandable terms, human history and its history in the Galaxy with an unbreidled enthousiasm that is really pulls in the reader. Mister Sagan takes us on an epic voyage through all of space and time, where he teaches us about our solar system and its creation, about the evolution of mankind and its future, and he explores the most strange and fascinating places in the universe, and how we as a species have unravelled these mysteries, and how we keep unravelling the myriads of mysteries that lay before us.
