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First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.
评分Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
评分First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.
评分German romanticism is awaken by the hypothesis - what if basic ideas shaped our nowadays world is more derived from personal fever when science was deemed as a 'cult' rather than logical inevitabilities proclaimed&verified by its overwhelming effectiveness afterwards? Then, how should we weigh those people bearing contradictory ideas to their age?
评分Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
丹尼尔• 凯曼(Daniel Kehlmann)
德国当代作家,评论家。1975年出生于慕尼黑。后考入维也纳大学,攻读哲学与德国文学。
1997年出版第一本小说《贝尔宏姆的想象》。2003年,小说《我与康明斯基》为他赢得世界声誉。2005年,刚满30岁的他出版《丈量世界》,被译为40多种语言,销量突破200万册,被誉为二战后德语文学最伟大的成就之一。2008年获托马斯•曼奖。
Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and measure "every river, every mountain and every lake in his path." Gauss is the hedgehog to Humboldt's fox, leaping out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a formula and rarely leaving his hometown of Göttingen. The two meet at a scientific congress in 1828, when Germany is in turmoil after the fall of Napoleon. Other luminaries appear throughout the novel, including a senile Immanuel Kant, Louis Daguerre and Thomas Jefferson. The narrative is notable for its brisk pacing, lively prose and wry humor (curmudgeonly Gauss laments, for instance, how "every idiot would be able to... invent the most complete nonsense" about him 200 years hence), which keenly complements Kehlmann's intelligent, if not especially deep, treatment of science, mathematics and reason at the end of the Enlightenment.
** 閱讀日期:2007.2.5-2.6 ** 我的感想:引人入勝,一口氣想看完的書。 ** 書前的序給我的懷疑:只有寫專文推薦那位是真的有看完這本書,名家推薦的人大概都是看過前幾章,要不就是隨手寫寫,才會覺得這本書是遊記。 ** 這本書寫的是兩個天才從小到老的生命歷程,洪堡跟他最...
评分“命运让人在过去面前具有一种不恰当的优势,同时又让人成为未来的小丑。”高斯在颠簸的马车上自言自语。回轮马车磕磕碰碰地行驶在不平整的路上。与此同时,远在柏林的洪堡仿佛仍对他不久的旅游考察充满了热衷,翘首期盼。 亚历山大.封.洪堡,卡尔.费里德利希.高斯。两个年...
评分周末在家,读完《测量世界》。读时心潮澎湃,兴奋不已。 高斯和洪堡,一个出身贫寒,一个出身贵族,前者靠公爵资助读完大学,后者是公爵的养子。一个用大脑推测丈量地球和宇宙,一辈子没出过德国国境;另外一个发现了南美大陆众多的自然现象和奇观,考察过亚马逊河流域。 我...
评分对于这个世界(包含宇宙),究竟我们是以何种方式去理解它?十九世纪,做为解释、理解这个世界的工具,科学终于取代神学。 以亚历山大.封.洪堡(Alexander von Humboldt,1768-1859)和数学家暨天文学家卡尔.费德烈.高斯(Carl Friedrich Gau?, 1777- 1855)为...
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