Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space
Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at
Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the
cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest
space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager,
and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed astronauts for
journeys to the moon. His Peabody Award-winning public television
series, Cosmos, has been seen by more than 500 million people in
over sixty countries, and the accompanying book spent seventy weeks
on The New York Times bestseller list. The author of thirty books,
Sagan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden:
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence in 1978, and
his novel Contact, is now a major motion picture.
In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the
National Science Foundation declared that his research transformed
planetary science ... his gifts to mankind were infinite.
"From the Hardcover edition."
"Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that
touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, "Cosmos" often seems
too good to be true."--"The Plain Dealer"
"Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on
history, and a third--his mind's--on the human
condition."--"Newsday"
"Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions . . .
shimmers with a sense of wonder."--"The Miami Herald
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"Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by
the stately galaxies of space."--"Cosmopolitan"
"Enticing . . . iridescent . . . imaginatively illustrated."--"The
New York Times Book Review"
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