Cosmos
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Astronomy; History of Science
Genres: Non-fiction
Description: 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."
Notes: Although Carl Sagan was an astronomer, and although this book, Cosmos, is about astronomy, it is actually far more than that - it is a history and a celebration of  science and the human intellect.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: 1
title: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean; label: 2
title: One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue; label: 3
title: The Harmony of the Worlds; label: 4
title: Heaven and Hell; label: 5
title: Blues for a Red Planet; label: 6
title: Traveler's Tales; label: 7
title: The Backbone of the Night; label: 8
title: Travels in Space and Time; label: 9
title: The Lives of Stars; label: 10
title: The Edge of Forever; label: 11
title: The Persistence of Memory; label: 12
title: Encylopaedia Galactica; label: 13
title: Who Speaks for Earth?