Measuring the World

Daniel Kehlman

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Publication Date : 15/03/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Recreating the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment, this novel has been a literary sensation in Germany, knocking J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown off the bestseller lists. The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Caril Freidrich Gauss set out to measure the world in the late 18th century. A distinctive debut.

Publisher's description:

Aims to recreate 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.

ISBN: 9781847240453