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A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1980 by Carl Sagan Productions, Inc.
Foreword copyright © 2013 by Ann Druyan
“Reflections on Carl Sagan’s
Cosmos
” essay copyright © 2013 by Neil deGrasse Tyson
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all acknowledgments, they appear on the next page .
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-5286
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-80098-5
This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc.
Cover design: Kathleen Lynch/Black Kat Design
Cover photograph: NASA, ESA, CXC and the University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
v3.1_r7
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
American Folklore Society: Excerpt from “Chukchee Tales” by Waldemar Borgoras from Journal of American Folklore , volume 41 (1928). Reprinted by permission of the American Folklore Society.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.: Quote by Isaac Newton (Optics) , quote by Joseph Fourier (Analytic Theory of Heat) , and A Question Put to Pythagoras by Anaximenes (c. 600 B.C .). Reprinted with permission from Great Books of the Western World. Copyright 1952 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Harvard University Press: Quote by Democritus of Abdera taken from Loeb Classical Library . Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press.
Indiana University Press: Excerpts from Ovid, Metamorphoses , translated by Rolfe Humphries, copyright 1955 by Indiana University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Oxford University Press: Excerpt from Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma by R. C. Zaehner (Clarendon Press—1955). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Penguin Books, Ltd.: One line from Enuma Elish , Sumer, in Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia , translated by N. K. Sandars (Penguin Classics, 1971). Copyright © N. K. Sandars, 1971. Twelve lines from Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching , translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963). Copyright © D. C. Lau, 1963. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.
Pergamon Press, Ltd.: Excerpts from Giant Meteorites by E. L. Krinov are reprinted by permission of Pergamon Press, Ltd.
Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Quote from the Bhagavad Gita from Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Pharr Davis (1968, page 239), and excerpt from The Sand Reckoner by Archimedes taken from The World of Mathematics by James Newman (1956, volume 1, page 420). Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Bruno Cassirer, Ltd.: Quote from The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis. Reprinted by permission of the publisher in the United States, Simon & Schuster, Inc., and the publisher in England, Bruno Cassirer (Publishers), Ltd., Oxford. Copyright © 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
The University of Oklahoma Press: Excerpt from Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya , by Adrian Recinos, 1950. Copyright © 1950 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.