Name: El Mundo y sus Demonios (in Spanish)
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Author: Carl Sagan
ISBN: 9788416771486

portada El Mundo y sus Demonios (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Carl Sagan

Publisher

Crítica

Collection

Drakontos

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

496

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.00 x 15.50

ISBN13

9788416771486

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El Mundo y sus Demonios (in Spanish)"

¿Estamos al borde de una nueva edad oscura de irracionalismo y superstición? En este libro conmovedor, el incomparable Carl Sagan demuestra con brillantez que el pensamiento científico es necesario para salvaguardar nuestras instituciones democráticas y nuestra civilización técnica. El mundo y sus demonios es el libro más personal de Sagan, y está lleno de historias humanas entrañables y reveladoras. El autor, con las experiencias de su propia infancia y la apasionante historia de los descubrimientos de la ciencia, muestra cómo el método del pensamiento racional puede superar prejuicios y supersticiones para dejar al descubierto la verdad, que, con frecuencia, resulta sorprendente.

Carl Sagan

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Carl Edward Sagan (New York, November 9, 1934-Seattle, December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, writer, and science communicator. Initially, he was an associate professor at Harvard University and later became the principal professor at Cornell University. At the latter, he was the first scientist to hold the David Duncan Professorship of Astronomy and Space Sciences, established in 1976, and was also the director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.

He was an advocate for scientific skeptical thinking and the scientific method, a pioneer of exobiology, and a promoter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence through the SETI project. He encouraged sending messages aboard space probes, intended to inform potential extraterrestrial civilizations about human culture. Through his observations of the atmosphere of Venus, he was among the first scientists to study the greenhouse effect on a planetary scale.

Carl Sagan gained great popularity thanks to the award-winning documentary television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, produced in 1980, of which he was the narrator and co-author. It was the most-watched series in the history of American public television, with an audience of more than 500 million people in about 60 countries. To accompany the series, the book Cosmos was published. He also wrote the 1985 science fiction novel Contact, which was the basis for the eponymous 1997 film. His publications, which contain 595,000 articles, are archived in the Library of Congress.

He also published numerous scientific articles, and was the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty popular science books. In 1978, he won the Pulitzer Prize for "General Non-Fiction Literature" for his book The Dragons of Eden.

Throughout his life, Sagan received numerous awards and honors for his work as a communicator of science and culture. Today, he is considered one of the most charismatic and influential science communicators, thanks to his ability to convey scientific ideas and cultural aspects to the general public with simplicity yet rigor.

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Antonella Iuvariello Wednesday, February 14, 2018
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Excelente el libro. Entrega en tiempo y forma. Gracias!
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Alexander Perozo Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Excelente libro de Sagan, en especial los capítulos 10, 12 y siguientes.
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Daisy Castillo Maureira Sunday, June 06, 2021
Espectacular!! Nada que decir! Legó rápido considerando que estamos en pandemia y aumenta el tiempo de espera, venía perfectamente embalado, siempre compro aquí y lo seguiré haciendo!!!
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