"Measuring the World" is a historical novel written by the German author Daniel Kehlmann, first published in 2005. The book tells the story of two prominent figures from the Age of Enlightenment: the Prussian mathematician and geodesist Carl Friedrich Gauss and the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The narrative intertwines their lives and work in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on their respective quests to measure and understand the world around them.
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