COSMOS

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life intoconsciousness, of how science and civilization grew up together, and of the forces andindividuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan’s remarkableability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, based on his acclaimedtelevision series.Carl Sagan was the Director of the Laboratory for Planetary studies and David Duncan.He served as Chairman of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the AmericanAstronomical Society, as Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science, and as President of the Planetology Section of theAmerican Geophysical Union. matter and life into