Measuring the World
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment, the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs mountains and explores holes in the ground. Gauss, born into poverty, doesn't need to leave his home to know that space is curved.
Measuring the World has sold more than 600,000 copies in Germany.
Publisher: Quercus
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