El Universo De Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan fue un científico destacado y un comunicador excepcional. Legiones de personas de todas las edades seguían sus libros, clases, conferencias, artículos y series de televisión. Sus intereses científicos y divulgativos abarcaron multitud de aspectos, desde la astronomía planetaria a la vida extraterrestre, desde la política internacional a la astronáutica, desde el pacifismo a la ciencia ficción. Esta obra recopila un conjunto de ensayos dedicados a todos los aspectos clave de la carrera de Sagan, cada uno de ellos elaborado por un experto mundial en el tema, incluido el propio Carl Sagan. El libro, confeccionado para conmemorar el 60 aniversario del nacimiento del astrónomo estadounidense, constituye una referencia imprescindible para todas las personas que siguieron su trayectoria en vida y que aún lo siguen admirando.

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated collection of articles by a distinguished team of authors, covering the many fields in which Carl Sagan worked.

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan’s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for Cosmos “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 “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

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future—and our own.

"Cosmos: Possible Worlds travels through more than 14 billion years of cosmic evolution and into an astonishing future where probes travel by light beams to distant stars, helping us solve enduring mysteries of our origins and dream toward an unimaginable time ahead."--

Inventar cosas no es sencillo, descubrir maravillas de la naturaleza puede resultar una Odisea, crear y fabricar puede requerir recursos enormes... pero transmitir información es seguramente lo más difícil que puede realizar el ser humano.Saber enseñar es un don muy raro, una habilidad que muy pocas personas tienen y saben aprovechar, y Carl Sagan consiguió hacerlo mostrando las maravillas del universo en una serie que pasará a la historia por permitir entender cosas que parecían solo destinadas a un puñado de científicos.

“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune