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Written in 1974-1975 this work by Carl Sagan is dated in terms of some of its information. Still the book did not disappoint. I learned alot about the flaws in the theory of Catastrophism, the psuedoscience of the past, and astronomy. I found the last section of the book the most fascinating. Sagan discusses the movement toward the light the some people experience when they have a near death experience. Then he explains some studies that a being done where people take LSD in combination with the
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In the first couple of chapters Sagan strongly and convincingly pushes back against so much of the pseudo-scientific dribble going in the 1970's (and earlier) when the book was written, just as he does in the "Demon-Haunted World" later in the 1990's, much of which still goes on today and which can be detrimental in so many ways.
Later chapters include interesting accounts and reviews of the state of astronomy research in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with predictions ...more
Later chapters include interesting accounts and reviews of the state of astronomy research in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with predictions ...more
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