Intelligent Life in the Universe; Being a translation, extension, and revision of I.S. Shklovskii.
Sagan, Carl [Shklovskii, Iosef]
Published by Holden-Day, Inc, San Francisco, 1966
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Octavo, xiv, [2], 509pp. Full red cloth, title in black and gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a truly fine copy. In the publisher's dust jacket, no retail price listed, shelf worn, with a thin blue line to front panel. Archival tape on the verso, reinforcing chipping at the head of the spine. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell, title in gilt on black morocco spine. Signed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. The majority of Carl Sagan's career was spent researching the cosmos, with a focus on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Intelligent Life in the Universe builds on a previous publication by Shklovskii, translated to English for the first time here as "Universe, Life, Mind". The book contains Shklovskii's research and analysis, additional commentary by Sagan, and original figures by Sagan. The two men collaborated entirely by mail between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Seller Inventory # 16224
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Title: Intelligent Life in the Universe; Being a ...
Publisher: Holden-Day, Inc, San Francisco
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Signed first edition, first printing of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Carl Sagan, in collaboration with Iosef S. Shklovskii.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
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Intelligent Life in the Universe; Being a translation, extension, and revision of I. S. Shklovskii's ,
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xic, [2], 509, [3] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Figures. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Includes Preface by Carl Sagan, A Note on Mathematical and Physical Units, Chapter 1: Perspectives; Chapter 2: Extraterrestrial life as a psychological projective test. Also contains chapters on The Universe; Life in the Universe; and a Bibliography. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (1 July 1916 - 3 March 1985) was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. He is remembered for work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe. This was the first comprehensive discussion of this field. Discussing the biological as well as astronomical issues of the subject, its unique format, alternating paragraphs written by Shklovsky and Sagan, demonstrated the deep mutual regard between the two and allowed them to express their views without compromise. He won the Lenin Prize in 1960 and the Bruce Medal in 1972. Asteroid 2849 Shklovskij and the crater Shklovsky (on the Martian moon Phobos) are named in his honor. He was a Corresponding Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1966. Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life. His 1966 translation/rewriting of a book by I. S. Shklovskii, Intelligent Life in the Universe, established Sagan as a first-rate popularizer of science. That status didn't win him friends in academia; in 1968 he was denied tenure at Harvard and moved to Cornell, where he became one of the stars of the faculty. This book, the product of a unique international collaboration between a world famous Russian astronomer and a leading American space scientist, is the first popular and accurate modern discussion of the entire panorama of natural evolution--including the origins of the universe, the evolution of stars and planets, the beginnings of life on earth, and the development of intelligence and technical civilizations among galactic communities. Included is a great deal of new material, some never before published in any form and some previously available only in technical journals inaccessible to the general reader. The book is written primarily for the intelligent layperson. Where necessary, details have been included in a non-technical way so, that the popular reader can critically judge the train of argument. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Seller Inventory # 80866
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