![]() ![]() Purchasing physical media or streaming access is advised. Streaming video links are sometimes ephemeral and may require vigorous searching. Search the web for the title of the episode. ![]() ![]() This episode may currently be streaming online. Note: the revised version of the series adds an introduction by Ann Druyan to this episode, recorded after Sagan's death, in which she discusses some of the changes that occurred in the years after its broadcast.This episode emphasizes astronomy: from the universe to the round Earth. Finally, the "Ages of Science" are described, before pulling back to the full span of the Cosmic Calendar. Eratosthenes' successful calculation of the circumference of Earth leads to a description of the ancient Library of Alexandria. The ship journeys through the universe's hundred billion galaxies, the Local Group, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, our Solar System, and finally the planet Earth. THE SHORES OF THE COSMIC OCEAN Ĭarl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a "Ship of the Imagination" (shaped like a dandelion seed). ![]() This is a question set to accompany the first episode of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, a thirteen-part television series that covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. ![]()
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