The book Cosmos was written by Sagan with 13 chapters, to correspond with the 13 episodes of the PBS broadcast. Most fans of Carl Sagan first saw him on the Emmy winning PBS television series Cosmos, which was rebooted in 2014 with popular astrophysicist Neal DeGrasse Tyson serving as host. For twelve years he was the editor-in-chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary research. Sagan became a professor of astronomy and space science at Cornell and was co-founder of the Planetary Society. By the time he was 26 years old he had earned bachelor and master's degrees at Cornell University as well as a double doctorate at the University of Chicago. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934. He has often been called the most famous American scientist. He did this through writing books, essays and articles, as well as appearing on television series and talk shows. He started his career as an astronomer and college professor and quickly expanded into popularizing the understanding of science and scientific discovery. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.' - Carl SaganĬarl Sagan was a Pulitzer and Hugo award-winning author of books about science for the layman. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.

Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.

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