EAN: 9780307277398

MEASURING THE WORLD - DANIEL KEHLMANN KARTONIER...

Measuring 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.  Late in the eighteenth century  two young Germans set
out to measure the world. One of them  the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt 
negotiates jungles  voyages down the Orinoco River  tastes poisons  climbs the highest mountain
known to man  counts head lice  and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across.
The other  the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss  can prove
that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric  these
two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828  and are immediately embroiled in the
turmoil of the post-Napolean world.

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