Miles Wirnseer’s Reviews > Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation > Status Update

End of chapter 6. This covered Saturn and Jupiter, along with their most interesting moons. It also describes Voyager I’s path through the Solar System.

The end of chapter 5 and the start of chapter 6. So far mainly covering the rise of the Netherlands in the 17th Century. It became a haven for science and technology as it was accepting of different ideas, contrary to very religious states which banned ideas challenging the Church.

Onto Mars - the debate over Martian life, and how we have invested the planet.

End of Chapter 4. This was about Venus - the earliest discoveries about it and what we know today. A very interesting and thought provoking chapter. Even a small increase in temperature on a planet can cause a chain reaction resulting in an atmosphere like that of Venus.

At the end of chapter 3. So far an interesting summary of the history of astronomy and the birth of astrophysics. Far from what I expected, but gripping nonetheless.