Cosmos Collection

Cosmos (Carl Sagan book)

Cosmos (1980) is a popular science book by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. Its 13 illustrated chapters, corresponding to the 13 episodes of the Cosmos TV series, which the book was co-developed with and intended to complement, explore the mutual development of science and civilization. One of Sagan's main purposes for the book and television series was to explain complex scientific ideas to anyone interested in learning. Sagan also believed the television was one of the greatest teaching tools ever invented, so he wished to capitalize on his chance to educate the world. Spurred in part by the popularity of the TV series, Cosmos spent 50 weeks on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list and 70 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list to become the best-selling science book ever published at the time. In 1981, it received the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. The book's unprecedented success ushered in a dramatic increase in visibility for science-themed literature. The success of the book also jumpstarted Sagan's literary career. The sequel to Cosmos is Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994).

In 2013, Cosmos was published in a new edition, with a foreword by Ann Druyan and an essay by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Author: Carl Sagan
Cover artist: Adolf Schaller
Country: United States
Language: English
Subject: Cosmos
Genre: Popular science
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication date: 1980
Media type: Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages: 365 (first edition)
396 (2013 edition)
ISBN: 0-394-50294-9 (first edition)
978-0-375-50832-5(2002 edition)
978-0-345-53943-4 (2013 edition)
OCLC: 6280573
Dewey Decimal: 520
LC Class: QB44.2 .S235
more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(Carl_Sagan_book)




Cosmos (1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/

IMDB RATING: 9,3

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Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.

Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromÿr Hanzlÿk, Jonathan Fahn

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/

IMDB RATING: 9,4

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A documentary series that explores how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time.

Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Stoney Emshwiller

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