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Measuring the world

Paperback • 2007 • English • 1. edition

Measuring the world

By Kehlman, Daniel

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About the book

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 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9781847241146

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2007

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Measuring the world

Format

Paperback

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