Measuring the World
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Measuring the World
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Measuring the World is a novel by Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt—who was accompanied on his journeys by French explorer Aimé Bonpland—and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between
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2005 novel by Daniel Kehlmann
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_the_World
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2006-11-08T05:26:12Z
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2024-09-04T21:00:11Z
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