Book Review

In 1980, Carl Sagan wrote and starred in a 13 part television series called The Cosmos. It remains the most watched science program ever with an audience estimated to be over 200 million. Sagan wrote the book Cosmos as a companion. Cosmos was on the New York Times best-seller list for 70 weeks, selling more than 5 million copies in 80 nations. It is the most popular science book every written, and it deserves to be.

With verve, humor, and insight, Sagan tells the history of astronomy with vignettes of the scientists and their discoveries. It is a wonderful journey, still relevant, still exhilarating.

~ Lee Grodzins, Ph.D., Physicist, Professor Emeritus, MIT