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Описание: Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.
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Carl Sagan Broca\s Brain: The Romance of Science
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. SCIENCE AND HUMAN CONCERN
CHAPTER 1
BROCA ’S BRAIN
CHAPTER 2
CAN WE KNOW THE UNIVERSE?
REFLECTIONS ON A GRAIN OF SALT
CHAPTER 3
THAT WORLD WHICH BECKONS LIKE A LIBERATION
CHAPTER 4
IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
PART II. THE PARADOXERS
CHAPTER 5
NIGHT WALKERS AND MYSTERY MONGERS: SENSE AND NONSENSE AT THE EDGE OF SCIENCE
ASTRAL PROJECTION
SPIRIT RAPPING
THE CARDIFF GIANT
CLEVER HANS, THE MATHEMATICAL HORSE
PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS
SOME RECENT BORDERLINE DOCTRINES
AND THEIR CRITIQUES
CHAPTER 6
WHITE DWARFS AND LITTLE GREEN MEN
CHAPTER 7
VENUS AND DR. VELIKOVSKY
PROBLEM I. THE EJECTION OF VENUS BY JUPITER
PROBLEM II. REPEATED COLLISIONS AMONGTHE EARTH, VENUS AND MARS
PROBLEM III. THE EARTH ’S ROTATION
PROBLEM IV. TERRESTRIAL GEOLOGY AND LUNAR CRATERS
PROBLEM V. CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
PROBLEM VI. MANNA
PROBLEM VII. THE CLOUDS OF VENUS
PROBLEM VIII. THE TEMPERATURE OF VENUS
PROBLEM IX. THE CRATERS AND MOUNTAINS OF VENUS
PROBLEM X. THE CIRCULARIZATION OF THE ORBIT OF VENUS AND NONGRAVITATIONAL FORCES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
SOME OTHER PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 8
NORMAN BLOOM, MESSENGER OF GOD
CHAPTER 9
SCIENCE FICTION – A PERSONAL VIEW
PART III. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN SPACE
CHAPTER 10
THE SUN ’S FAMILY
CHAPTER 11
A PLANET NAMED GEORGE
TABLE 1
THE FIRST MARTIAN CHANNELS TO BE NAMED
TABLE 2
NAMES OF THE SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS
TABLE 3
PROPOSED NAMES FOR JOVIAN SATELLITES
CHAPTER 12
LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER 13
TITAN, THE ENIGMATIC MOON OF SATURN
CHAPTER 14
THE CLIMATES OF PLANETS
CHAPTER 15
KALLIOPE AND THE KAABA
CHAPTER 16
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION
PART IV. THE FUTURE
CHAPTER 17
“WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER?”
CHAPTER 18
VIA CHERRY TREE, TO MARS
CHAPTER 19
EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
CHAPTER 20
IN DEFENSE OF ROBOTS
CHAPTER 21
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY
CHAPTER 22
THE QUEST FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
PART V. ULTIMATE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 23
A SUNDAY SERMON
CHAPTER 24
GOTT AND THE TURTLES
CHAPTER 25
THE AMNIOTIC UNIVERSE
REFERENCES
CHAPTER 3
THAT WORLD WHICH BECKONS LIKE A LIBERATION
CHAPTER 5
NIGHT WALKERS AND MYSTERY MONGERS
CHAPTER 7
VENUS AND DR. VELIKOVSKY
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX 1
Simple Collision Physics Discussion of the Probability of a Recent Collision with the Earth by a Massive Member of the Solar System
APPENDIX 2
Consequences of a Sudden Deceleration of Earth ’s Rotation
The Scopes Trial, 1925
APPENDIX 3
Present Temperature of Venus If Heated by a Close Passage to the Sun
APPENDIX 4
Magnetic Field Strengths Necessary to Circularize an Eccentric Cometary Orbit
Carl Sagan
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