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259 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781849164597
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Quercus
Publication date: 04 October 2010
Description
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment – the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18t...
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259 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781849164597
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Quercus
Publication date: 04 October 2010
Description
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment – the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18t...