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Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring the World

Author: Daniel Kehlmann

Read by: Humphrey Bower

Translator: Carol Brown Janeway

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08:15.20

Published: 1st January 2010

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Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Daniel Kehlmann has produced a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterisation.

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