Measuring The World
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Measuring The World

by Daniel Kehlmann
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At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some...

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AuthorDaniel Kehlmann
First published2006
Era2000 onward
PublisherPantheon Books
LanguageEnglish
FormatHardcover
Reference7203015-unspecified

The Story

At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age. 17,500 first printing.

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