Libraries outstanding people: Carl Sagan

We continue heading "Libraries outstanding people"Which focuses on the favorite books of interesting personalities. This article - the list of favorite books popularizer of science and scientist Carl Sagan and a few facts about how his attitude to reading.

Carl Sagan has already appeared on the pages Layfhakera article about the people who you will plant a love for science. In it, we mentioned it not only as a great scientist and popularizer, but also as a teacher Neil deGrasse Tyson - an incredibly charismatic man who did much for science.

There is little doubt that Sagan read a lot. Moreover, since childhood he was interested in literature and at a young age wrote a poem Buying War Stamps. This fact came up with a list of favorite literature Charles, who published the Library of Congress.

In addition to books related to astrophysics and cosmology, Sagan also liked to read about the history, philosophy, religion and psychology. List of favorite books, written by Sagan by hand, you can see here.

Favorite books by Carl Sagan

1. «Plato. "Republic""Simon Blackburn.
2. «immoralist"Andre Gide.
3. «Timaeus"Plato.
4. «History of Western Philosophy"Bertrand Russell (replacement of the book« The History of Western Philosophy »W. T. Jones).
5. «Julius Caesar", William Shakespeare.
6. «What is mathematics?"Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
7. «Young Archimedes and other novel"Aldous Huxley.
8. «Feast"Plato.
9. But We Were Born Free, Elmer Holmes Davis.
10. Who Speaks for Man?, Norman Cousins.