Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
I remember seeing this book sitting on my dad’s table at
home when I was a teenager. A
best-selling book at the time, Cosmos
by Carl Sagan was the “go-to” book on astronomy, science, and all things
“outerspace”. The book has thirteen
chapters which correlate with a TV series with the same number of
editions. The book shares very complex
scientific thoughts on the development of earth, the universe and human beings
in our civilization. Sagan, a Professor at Cornell University, is known in his
time as the Father of Science. The
success of the book was a result of its combination of the latest scientific
knowledge with amazing pictures from space.
The planets, earth’s beginnings, the stars (my favorite chapter), the
development of science over the ages, telescopes and what they see, the
development of travel (and its impact on what we know), and travel in space
(and each voyage to that date) are a few of the various, major themes in the
book. A bit dated but great to read what
was known at that moment in time. Some
major books stay best sellers, even today!
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