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Language German Published in English November 7, 2006 Publisher Pantheon Books Country Germany | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date September 2005 Originally published September 2005 Genre Novel Translator Carol Brown Janeway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Die Vermessung der Welt Pages 304 (German hardcover edition)
272 (English hardcover edition) ISBN 3-498-03528-2 (German hardcover edition)
ISBN 0-375-42446-6 (English hardcover edition) Similar Daniel Kehlmann books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German author Daniel Kehlmann, 2005 published by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt—who was accompanied on his journeys by Aimé Bonpland—and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between Gauss and his son Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father decreed that he study law. The English translation is by Carol Brown Janeway (November 2006). The book was a bestseller; by 2012 it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone.
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A film version directed by Detlev Buck was released in 2012.