{"id":17425,"date":"2020-11-10T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2022-09-13T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:02:00","slug":"cosmos-a-personal-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=17425","title":{"rendered":"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage<\/em><\/strong> is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan<\/a>, Ann Druyan<\/a>, and Steven Soter<\/a>, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone<\/a>, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life<\/a> and a perspective of our place in the universe.<\/p>\n

The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service<\/a> in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television<\/a> until The Civil War<\/a><\/i> (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.<\/sup> It won two Emmys<\/a> and a Peabody Award<\/a>, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people.<\/sup><\/sup> A book<\/a> was also published to accompany the series.<\/p>\n

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage<\/em> has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; David Itzkoff<\/a> of The New York Times<\/a><\/i> described it as “a watershed moment for science-themed television programming<\/a>“.<\/sup><\/p>\n