Measuring the World

Belletristik

Einheits Sachtitel:
Die Vermessung der Welt (engl.)

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Kehlmann, Daniel

Verfasser Angabe:
Daniel Kehlmann. Transl. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Personen:
Janeway, Carol Brown [Übers.]

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Gauß, Carl Friedrich
• Humboldt, Alexander von

Verlag:
Quercus

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2007

Umfang:
259 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-8472-4114-6

Inhalt:
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the other hand, stayed at home, using the power of thought to battle his way into exotic mathematical realms and the landmark realization that space is curved.
Measuring the World brings these two geniuses to life, capturing their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success.

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