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Calculating the Planet represents the introduction of the wonderful fresh expertise to the global landscape. Young Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann’s amazing witty book moves round the assembly of two huge geniuses of the Enlightenment.Late in the eighteenth-century, two young Germans attempted to gauge the globe. One of these, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates woodlands, trips down the Orinoco River, preferences toxins, increases the greatest pile recognized to man, matters head lice, and examines and steps every slope and cavern he results in. Another, the reclusive and hardly socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, may show that space is bent without leaving his house.