Cosmos - Libro en Inglés

Cosmos – Carl Sagan

Few books have opened the universe to readers as beautifully as Cosmos.

Written by Carl Sagan, the celebrated astronomer and science communicator, and based on his landmark television series, Cosmos takes readers on a sweeping journey through fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution. Sagan explores the origins of the universe, the birth and death of stars, the formation of galaxies and planets, and the emergence of life on Earth, and then turns to the great question of whether we are alone.

Along the way he tells the human story of science itself: the ancient Greek thinkers who first reasoned about the nature of the world, the scholars of the Library of Alexandria, astronomers such as Kepler and Galileo who transformed our understanding of the heavens, and the modern explorers whose spacecraft visited the planets. He explains complex ideas, from relativity to the chemistry of life, with clarity, wonder and a poet’s eye.

Sagan also reflects on humanity’s place in the vastness of space, on the fragility of our planet, and on the responsibility that comes with our growing knowledge, including the dangers of nuclear war and environmental destruction.

One of the best-selling science books ever published in English, Cosmos remains as inspiring and relevant today as when it first appeared. It is an essential read for curious minds of all ages, students and anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered where we came from.