Cosmos

Based on the Fox and National Geographic television series Cosmos: Possible Worlds, this riveting book showcases famed author Ann Druyan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas understandable and inspiring. In these pages we discover how science and civilization have grown together, and how they illuminate the path of our future. From the emergence of life on Earth some 4 billion years ago to a future in which interstellar spacecraft travel to other parts of the galaxy, Druyan explores where we've been and where we're going. Here is the story of the ideas that shape the science of tomorrow, with well-known figures such as Galileo and Darwin, and forgotten heroes such as the astronomer Caroline Herschel, the botanist Nikolai Vavílov or the engineer Yuri Kondratiuk. More exciting still is Druyan's view of the world we can still have here on Earth.