Then photos of the landscapes of Mars were arriving, even if they were not in high definition. Sagan was very sorry that he was striving for space research while military spending continued to grow.Įven so, important steps had been taken for the knowledge of the near and distant stars, thanks to the probes. The series was made when the fascination with the space race was waning, weighed down by budget cuts during the oil crisis. Sagan introduced some updates at the end of the chapters in 1989 with the latest findings.īut he didn't have to correct himself too much either. The original, 13 one-hour episodes, can be revisited on Filmin and has aged very well. Has a modern, and attractive, version featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson. (I came across a publication in which page assemblers, an old trade, amused themselves by exchanging the paragraphs of each sign. They are all so vague that they are valid for anyone Īll so different from each other that they cannot respond to any basis. He picks up several newspapers and reads the prediction for a sign: Libra. And, as a good apostle of rationalism, he took the opportunity to make fun of horoscopes. The great scientific popularizer Carl Sagan explained it wonderfully in his
In ancient cultures, astrology also served political power, which took care to control it: at that time, predicting the fall of a tyrant was equivalent to instigating his overthrow. Progress was cornering astrology in favor of astronomy: at first they were the same. Ptolemy already did it many centuries before Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler got into trouble for it. In addition to magic, those who gazed at the stars also noticed their patterns. There was something magical about the way the sky seemed unchanging when the earth was in chaos. When prehistoric humans put out their bonfires at night, they were left alone with the stars.
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