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This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason.
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Epic, warm, plot-driven and spare.
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“"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."”
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications. <q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” </cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>
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“Is this Carl Sagan's best work?”
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“Would Cosmos hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1980?”
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