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Cosmos
Carl Sagan
4.4 (156250 Reviews)
Science
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Philosophy
Panoramica
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Dive into the cosmos with Carl Sagan's groundbreaking bestseller that spent 70 weeks on the NYT list. This Hugo Award winner inspired countless scientists' careers and sold 5 million copies worldwide. What celestial mysteries await in the book that made science irresistibly accessible?

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A Pale Blue Dot in an Ocean of Stars

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Look up on a clear night. Those pinpricks of light aren't just decorative fixtures in some celestial dome-they're suns, blazing furnaces scattered across distances so vast they make our earthly concerns seem almost comically small. Yet here's the paradox: understanding our cosmic insignificance doesn't diminish us. It elevates us. Because somehow, against all odds, the universe has arranged itself in such a way that hydrogen atoms-the simplest stuff of creation-have become conscious enough to contemplate their own existence. We are, quite literally, the universe looking back at itself. This journey begins at the shore of a cosmic ocean. We've barely wet our toes, but already the view is staggering. Our Milky Way contains 400 billion stars, each potentially surrounded by worlds in various stages of evolution. Beyond that? Billions of other galaxies, each with billions more stars. The numbers become meaningless, almost absurd. Yet within this incomprehensible vastness, one fact stands out: we exist. And if we exist here, on this particular world, what are the chances we're alone?

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When the Cosmos Became Clockwork

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