Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; …
《코스모스》는 미국의 천문학자 칼 세이건이 1980년에 저술한 책으로 같은 제목의 다큐멘터리를 기초로 하여 저술되었으며, 유사한 형식과 내용을 담고 있다. 5백만 부 이상이 팔려 세계적인 베스트셀러가 되었다. 휴고상을 수상하였다.
《에덴의 용: 인간 지성의 기원을 찾아서》은 1978년 칼 세이건이 쓴 책으로 칼 세이건에게 그 해 문학부문 퓰리처상을 안겨준 책이다. 이 책을 통해 칼 세이건은 대폭발에서 시작된 우주의 진화에서 인류의 등장과 인간 지성의 진화에 이르기까지 150억 년의 시공을 가로지으며 우리가 어떻게 해서 우리 자신과 우주에 대해 이해할 수 있는 능력을 소유하게 되었는지 분석한다. 뇌과학의 연구 성과와 동서양의 여러 신화를 한데 어우르며 뇌라고 하는 미로를 …
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space is a non-fiction book by Carl Sagan. It is the sequel to Cosmos and was inspired by the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph, for which Sagan provides a poignant description. In this book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of …
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its chapters were originally articles published between 1974 and 1979 in various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Physics Today, Playboy and Scientific American. In the introduction, Sagan writes: …
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God is a book consisting of a series of lectures by astronomer Carl Sagan, which was first published in 2006, which was 10 years after his death. The title is a reference to The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James. Edited by Ann …
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are is a 1993 book by Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan. The authors give a summary account of the evolutionary history of life on earth, with particular focus upon certain traits central to human nature and the discussion of where their precursors began to develop …
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective is a book by Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel. It was originally published in 1973; an expanded edition with contributions from Freeman Dyson, David Morrison, and Ann Druyan was published in 2000 under the title Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection. The book contains …