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Measuring the World
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 15 May 2007
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century, in the heyday of the German Enlightenment, two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. The mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognized as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home and Gottingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula.
Measuring the World is a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by sly humour and unforgettable characterization. It brings the two eccentric geniuses to life, their longings and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success. Already a pan-European publishing phenomenon, Measuring the World marks the English-language debut of an outstanding and original voice in contemporary fiction.
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Cover Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781847240453
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