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Science 27 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5837, pp. 454 - 455
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142791
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FICTION AND EXPLORATION:
The World Measurers

Caroline Ash

Measuring the World
A Novel
by Daniel Kehlmann
Translated from the German (1) by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon, New York, 2006. 262 pp. $23, C$30. ISBN 9780375424465. Quercus, London, 2007. £12.99. ISBN 9781847240453.

Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexander von Humboldt
Penguin, London, 2007. 112 pp. Paper, £4.99, C$9.99. ISBN 9780141025452. Great Journeys.
Kehlmann's protagonists are the home-bound mathematical genius Carl Friedrich Gauss and the widely traveled explorer and biogeographer Alexander von Humboldt.

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