Measuring The World by Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring The World

Daniel Kehlmann with Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)

259 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous slow-paced
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 Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment – the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18t...

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