by Carl Sagan
Sagan takes readers on a journey through the cosmos while arguing that science is humanity's greatest tool for understanding. His deeper message: our pale blue dot demands humility, wonder, and rational inquiry.
In this collection, Cosmos references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.
It draws on The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, The Precipice and The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World and 1 others.
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Sagan discusses Darwin's Origin on scientific understanding of life.
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Tyson continues Sagan's Cosmos tradition.
Ord explicitly invokes Sagan's Cosmos and Sagan's Pale Blue Dot framing to anchor the book's cosmic-scale moral argument about humanity's long-term future.
Wulf explicitly connects Humboldt's Cosmos, his own multi-volume attempt to describe the universe as a unity, to the Sagan tradition continued in the twentieth-century book Cosmos.
Roach invokes Sagan's Cosmos and the broader astronomy-popularization tradition as the idealistic backdrop against which her bodily, bureaucratic reality of spaceflight is set.
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Charles Darwin
2 shared citations
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Bill Bryson
2 shared citations
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
2 shared citations
The Double Helix
James D. Watson
2 shared citations
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
1 shared citation
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
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