Book guide
Measuring the World
Two Enlightenment geniuses—one roaming the earth, one mapping the universe from home—collide in a sly, comic historical adventure.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalClass divideAdventureExpedition
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About Measuring the World
This comic historical novel follows Alexander von Humboldt, the aristocratic naturalist who explores jungles, rivers, mountains, caves, and every measurable detail he can find, alongside the reclusive mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, whose mind bends space without leaving home, until their eccentric paths meet in Berlin in 1828.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Light
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- animal cruelty
- body horror
- slavery
- colonisation
- cannibalism
- animal death
- miscarriage
- sexual assault
- rape
- violence
- suicidal thoughts
- sexual content
- emotional abuse
