Measuring the World
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Measuring the World: A Novel
By Daniel KehlmannBut there was a risk, said Vogt. But a small one. Small or not, between civilized people there were ways of recognizing these things. Humboldt assured him of his gratitude. Which could express itself in more than one way.
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Measuring the World
By Daniel KehlmannMeasuring 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.
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Measuring the World
By Daniel KehlmannThe story of two Enlightenment genuises who set out to measure the world.
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Measuring the World
By Daniel KehlmannMeasuring 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.
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Measuring the World
By Daniel KehlmannLoosely based on the lives of explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony.
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Measuring the World: A Novel
By Daniel KehlmannMeasuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.