Cosmos

365 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1980 by Random House.

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This is a book about Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton; about the Milky Way, about gaseous planets without a surface, and a universe of a hundred billion galaxies. It is about whirlpool galaxies and the ancient Library at Alexandria, Egypt - the place "where we humans first collected, seriously and systematically, the knowledge of the world."

28 editions

Subjects

  • Astronomy
  • History of Science