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Measuring the World
By
Carol Brown Janeway (trans) and
Daniel Kehlmann
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
October 9, 2007
Pages
259
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307277398
ISBN-10
0307277399
Dimensions
0.50 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age. Reprint.
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Hardcover
Large print edition from Ulverscroft Large Print Books (July 30, 2008)
9780753180266 | details & prices | 296 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $35.50
Paperback
Large print edition from Isis Large Print Books (April 1, 2009)
9780753180273 | details & prices | 304 pages | List price $27.99
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Reprint edition from Vintage Books (October 9, 2007)
9780307277398 | details & prices | 259 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $16.00
About: At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age.
About: At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age.
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Abridged edition from Gardners Books (April 12, 2007)
9781847242181 | details & prices | List price $27.70
About: Features the lives of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
About: Features the lives of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
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