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
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.
