Measuring the World

Measuring the World
Measuring the World  
Author(s) Daniel Kehlmann
Original title Die Vermessung der Welt
Translator Carol Brown Janeway
Country Germany
Language German
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Pantheon Books
Publication date September 2005
Published in
English		 November 7, 2006
Pages 304 (German hardcover edition)
272 (English hardcover edition)
ISBN ISBN 3-498-03528-2 (German hardcover edition)
ISBN 0375424466 (English hardcover edition)
OCLC Number 61714982
LC Classification PT2671.E32 V47 2005

Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a 2005 novel by German author Daniel Kehlmann. 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 their travels in South America and their meeting in 1828. The English translation is by Carol Brown Janeway (November 2006). The book was a bestseller; by 2009 it had sold more than 1.4 million copies in Germany alone.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Reading Daniel Kehlmann , by Arnon Gunberg. Words Without Borders, 6 April 2009

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