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Cosmos
Overview: The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy...
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New York
Ballantine Books
1985
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Shores of the cosmic ocean
- One voice in the cosmic fugue
- Harmony of worlds
- Heaven and hell
- Blues for a red planet
- Travelers' tales
- Backbone of night
- Travels in space and time
- Lives of the stars
- Edge of forever
- Persistence of memory
- Encyclopedia galactic
- Who speaks for earth?
- Appendix 1: Reductio ad absurdum and the square root of two
- Appendix 2: Five Pythagorean solids
- For further reading
- Index.