The Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
- First published:
- 20th century
- Languages: Catalan, Chinese, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
It was a blustery fall day in 1939. As I got off the plane, he was waiting for me, holding up a scrap of cardboard with my name scribbled on it.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “The Demon-Haunted World”. Retained metadata contains “The Demon-Haunted World” in the title, “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata, and “The Demon-Haunted World” in the edition title.
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· via Open Library
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· in title
- “Parapsychology”· in subject
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· in edition title
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “The Demon-Haunted World”. Retained metadata contains “The Demon-Haunted World” in the title and “The Demon-Haunted World” in the edition title.
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· via Open Library
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· in title
- “The Demon-Haunted World”· in edition title
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Editions
Open Library reports 35 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Science as a Candle in the Dark Open Library record | 1996 | Random House | English |
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Subjects
- Philosophy
- Parapsychology
- Okkultismus
- Science
- New York Times reviewed
- Education
- Aberglaube
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Grenzwissenschaften
- Study and teaching
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Wissenschaft
- Popular works
- Methods
- Naturwissenschaften
- Methodology
- Sciences
- Étude et enseignement
- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Méthodologie
- Sciences et civilisation
- Ciencia
- Irrtum
- Literacy
- Obras de divulgación
- Pseudowetenschap
- Science and civilization
- Science, methodology
- Sociale aspecten
- Razonamiento
- Irrationalität
- Wetenschap
- Ciencia y civilización
- Science, popular works
- Science, study and teaching
- Fanatismo
- Errores populares
- Alphabétisation
- Onwetendheid
- Naturwissenschaftliche Weltanschauung
Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
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- OCLC
- Open Library work
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 35 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL2950942W
- Edition coverage
- Representative plus work aggregates
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