Performing Science: The Artist (Volume 1 and 2): Sagan's Biography - Philosopher Stone Series

Author: (USA) Davidson, K. (Author), Bao Yongning (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Carl Sagan was a renowned American astronomer and a celebrated science popularizer worldwide. He was a highly influential figure in the field of American space exploration and served as a long-term professor of astronomy and space science at Cornell University, as well as the director of the Planetary Laboratory, achieving outstanding research results in planetary physics. In the realm of science popularization, his achievements are globally recognized: the 13-episode television series Cosmos, which he hosted in the 1980s, was translated into over a dozen languages and broadcast in nearly 70 countries. The accompanying book Cosmos sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. His other science and culture books, such as Contact, The Dragons of Eden, Comets, Pale Blue Dot, and The Demon-Haunted World, have been widely read across the globe, including in China. He was an idol for countless young Americans and earned the title of "an artist who performs science." At the same time, Sagan was a contradictory figure—his first two marriages ended in divorce, and he had "rivals" among his peers. After the English original of this Biography of Sagan was published, it quickly received widespread acclaim, presenting readers with an extraordinary scientist and science advocate, a vivid and distinctly individual person.