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Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1847240453
- ISBN 13
- 9781847240453
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Quercus, UK, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 259 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Quercus, UK, 2007. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man. Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the other hand, stayed at home, using the power of thought to battle his way into exotic mathematical realms and the landmark realization that space is curved. Measuring the World brings these two geniuses to life, capturing their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; ISBN: 1847240453. ISBN/EAN: 9781847240453. Inventory No: 24030172.. 9781847240453
Synopsis
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24030172
- Title
- Measuring the World
- Author
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1847240453
- ISBN 13
- 9781847240453
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Measuring the World
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Fiction;
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