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Measuring the World
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
April 12, 2007
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Abridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781847242181
ISBN-10
1847242189
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$27.70
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Features the lives of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Presented in an audio format, this book aims to bring together their longings and weaknesses; failures and successes; and, the balance they tread between absurdity and greatness.
Editions
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
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.
CD/Spoken Word
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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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