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Cosmos / Carl Sagan.
LIBRA - Rare QB44.2 S235 Potok copy
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QB981 .S2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Popular works.
- Astronomy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 365 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1980]
- Contents:
- The shores of the cosmic ocean
- One voice in the cosmic fugue
- The harmony of worlds
- Heaven and hell
- Blues for a red planet
- Travelers' tales
- The backbone of night
- Travels in space and time
- The lives of the stars
- The edge of forever
- The persistence of memory
- Encyclopaedia Galactica
- Who speaks for the earth?
- Appendix 1: Reductio ad Absurdum and the Square Root of Two
- Appendix 2: The five Pythagorean solids.
- Notes:
- Based on Carl Sagan's 13-part television series.
- "Design: Robert Aulicino."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [350]-355) and index.
- Based on C. Sagan's 13-part television series.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has "First Edition" statement wanting.
- ISBN:
- 0394502949 :
- OCLC:
- 6280573
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