{"product_id":"measuring-the-world-9780307277398","title":"Measuring the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World \u003c\/i\u003emarks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann's brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other, the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric, these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828, and are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napolean world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307277398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2007 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/05\/2009 pg. 1267\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daniel Kehlmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635557757084,"sku":"9780307277398","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bad402c3-ff6c-47ee-9046-54463da09b5f.jpg?v=1603839893","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/measuring-the-world-9780307277398","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}