01235nam a22002297a 4500 OSt 20251212070605.0 250724b |||||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d 9780307277398 Goethe Zentrum Library English FP2006/02 Kehlmann, Daniel Measuring the World Die Vermessung der Welt 1st. ed ,October 2007 New York : Vintage Books, 2006 259p. 13x20cm Late in the 18th 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 Cral 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 are are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napoleonic world. Janeway, Brown Carol Translator Custom FP 0 139 139 0 0 Custom 0 0 GZKL GZKL 2025-07-24 0 FP2006/02 2025-0169 2025-07-24 09:31:49 2025-07-24 FP