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Originally Posted by pwalker8
True enough. Cosmo was a unique book which inspired a lot of people when both it and the PBS series it spawned came out. Of course, back then there were a lot of people in the US who were space crazy from the Apollo program. His other books were not all that great.
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The title is "Cosmos". I thought it was a typo when you wrote it the first time, but not the second
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One can also point to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time as a similar sort of book, i.e. an extremely popular science book discussing theory. In a different area, I'm fond of Nicholas Wade's Before the Dawn. Both are books that discuss what were the popular theories of the time, which is my point. They discuss theory rather than decided fact.
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Sadly - and I don't know if it's the same in the US - many people in Britain would proudly boast how little of "A Brief History of Time" they'd managed to get through, as though stupidity were a badge of honour
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