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040			_cGoethe Zentrum Library
041			_aEnglish
082			_aFP2006/02
100			_aKehlmann, Daniel
245			_aMeasuring the World
247			_aDie Vermessung der Welt
250			_a1st. ed _b,October 2007
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c2006
300			_a259p. _c13x20cm
500			_aLate 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.
700			_aJaneway, Brown Carol _eTranslator
942			_2Custom _cFP _n0
999			_c139 _d139