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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |  Beautiful and amusing story about two ways to try to get to grip with the world. Die Vermessung is about trying to handle and keeping on enjoying the amazing comlexity and vastness of our planet in a time Europeans had still white spots on their globe. (  ) Dettingmeijer | Oct 26, 2009 | tamaranth | Oct 24, 2009 | Ich schliesse mich Frau_Lichterloh an, die es auf den Punkt gebracht hat: Nett, aber nicht nachhaltig. (  ) MartinRohrbach | Sep 6, 2009 | A rapid recounting of a couple of the early popular science heroes. Humboldt and Gauss. A really quickly moving writing style which benefits from being a translation in some kind of hard to pin down way. The prose style is unusual but clear enough and keeps the reader turning the pages rapidly. The narrative plunges along and so much is left unsaid about ancillary characters and events that if almost feels like a morality tale at times. So yes I enjoyed it, but no I don't think it was the masterpiece that many of the papers claimed when this book first came out. (  ) psiloiordinary | Aug 11, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Im Gegenteil, das Buch war eine einzige Enttäuschung. Ich weiß nicht, ob der Autor auf seine Art das Leben und Wirken der beiden genialen Wissenschaftler Humboldt und Gauß einer breiteren Masse bekannter machen wollte. Keine Ahnung ... Und einen tieferen philosophischen Sinn habe ich auch nicht finden können.
Aber glücklicherweise sind die Geschmäcker verschieden. Wer aber die beiden Finnen Arto Paasilinna und Mikael Niemi mag, wird vielleicht auch dieses Buch mögen ...