Measuring the World
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Year
2006
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Country
United States
Pages
259
ISBN
0375424466
At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Alexander von Humboldt journeys to unexplored regions of the planet, and Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of hi— Google Books
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