Format:
Book
Author(s):
Sagan, Carl
Keyword(s):
Intellect.
Brain.
Space sciences.
Brain.
Extraterrestrial Environment.
Science.
Intelligence.
Cerveau.
Sciences spatiales.
Sciences -- MÈthodologie.
Broca, Paul, 1824-1880.
Broca, Paul, 1824-1880.
Year:
1979
Pages:
xv, 347 p.
Publisher:
Random House
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
4493944
Label:
Box 13
Notes:
24 cm.
In praise of science and technology. -Night walkers and mystery mongers: sense and nonsense at the edge of science. Astral projection. Precognitive dreams. -White dwarfs and little green men. -Venus and Dr. Velikovsky. -Science fiction -- a personal view. -The sun's family. -Experiments in space. -In defense of robots. -The past and future of American astronomy. -The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-319) and index.
Carl Sagan.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: BF431; Dewey: 128/.2; NLM: Q 171 S129b 1979
ISBN:
ISBN: 0394501691; 9780394501697 LCCN: 78-21810
Edition:
1st
Research notes:
Review copy - uncorrected proof
Abstract:
Explorers various aspects of several fields of science and examines the role of the intellect in scientific achievement.