كارل ساغان

كوكب الأرض نقطة زرقاء باهتة هو أحد أهم كتب عالم الفلك الأمريكي الراحل كارل ساغان. ألف الكتاب سنة 1994، وفكرة الكتاب مأخوذة من صورة التقطتها مركبة الفضاء الأمريكية فوياجر 2 لكوكب الأرض في شهر شباط 1990 من مسافة ستة مليارات كيلو متر عن الأرض، حيث بدا كوكب الأرض كنقطة زرقاء بالكاد تبدو واضحة في خلفية النجوم. الكتاب يتحدث …

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 …

Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries."A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion …

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; …

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 …

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 …