Measuring the world / Daniel Kehlmann.

By:

Kehlmann, Daniel

Language: English Publication details: London : Quercus, 2007.Description: 259 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781847241146 (hbk.) :
184724114X (hbk.) :

Uniform titles:

Vermessung der Welt. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographical fiction.

DDC classification:

833.914

Summary: Towards the end of the 18th century, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician and physicist, Carl Friedrich Gauss, set out to measure the world. This novel brings the two eccentric geniuses to life

List(s) this item appears in: North Middlesex - Fiction collection

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Towards the end of the 18th century, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician and physicist, Carl Friedrich Gauss, set out to measure the world. This novel brings the two eccentric geniuses to life

Translated from the German.

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