The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and …
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The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.From the Hardcover edition.
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Measuring the World
Paperback, 272 pages
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2007 by Vintage.
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La medición del mundo
Hardcover, 275 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 14, 2007 by Círculo de Lectores, S.A..
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- 978-84-672-2338-5Copied ISBN!
Measuring the world
259 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 2006 by Pantheon Books.
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- 64453483
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Measuring the world
259 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 2006 by Pantheon Books.
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Vyměřování světa
Hardcover, 224 pages
Czech language
Published 2007 by Vakát.
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- 978-80-903815-2-0Copied ISBN!
Measuring the World
audio cd
English language
Published Nov. 1, 2006 by Phoenix Audio.
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- 978-1-59777-135-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76950926
Zhang liang shi jie =
277 pages
Chinese language
Published Nov. 14, 2015
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5442-7659-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 961212900
Dünyanin Ölcümü
Paperback, 256 pages
Published April 13, 2019 by Can Yayinlari.
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- 978-975-07-3900-2Copied ISBN!
Les arpenteurs du monde
298 pages
French language
Published Sept. 7, 2006 by Actes Sud.
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- 978-2-7427-6545-4Copied ISBN!
Die Vermessung der Welt
301 pages
German language
Published Nov. 14, 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Rowohlt Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-498-03528-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61714982
Measuring the World
272 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2007 by Quercus.
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- 978-1-84724-114-6Copied ISBN!
Die Vermessung der Welt
hardcover
Published Dec. 1, 2009 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch.
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- 978-3-499-25303-4Copied ISBN!
Zhang liang shi jie
341 pages
Chinese language
Published Nov. 14, 2007 by Shang zhou chu ban.
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- 978-986-124-795-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
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Die Vermessung der Welt
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German language
Published Nov. 14, 2005 by Universal Music.
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Die Vermessung der Welt
Hardcover, 301 pages
German language
Published Nov. 14, 2006 by RM Buch Und Medien Vertrieb GmbH.
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