Eureka: What Success Hails Progress: Groundbreaking Inventions That Challenged Existing Paradigms and Put London at the Forefront of Science

London Baby

De: Lande Jewels

Narrado por: Lande Jewels

Time and predictability allows for some of the most extraordinary breakthrough inventions to be taken for granted in our modern life. Through eloquent and artfully illustrated verse Lande Jewels rediscovers the key paradigms and theories that shaped the science we know today. From heliocentrism to quantum mechanics and from MRI to Michael Faraday's electric motor, the history is told a poem at a time.

Subjects you'll uncover include Heliocentrism, Newton's Laws, Einstein's Relativity, Ada Lovelace, Quantum Mechanics, Stephen Hawkins & Black Holes, Lamaitre and Big Bang, Alan Turing computer, Tim Berners Lee World Wide Web, Alexander Graham Bell & first telephone, Climate Change, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Plate Tectonics, Ian Fleming & Penicillin, Anesthesia & Antibiotics, DNA, Butterfly Effect, Nuclear power & Atomic Bomb, Michael Faraday & electricity, Germ Theory, Darwin's Evolution and much more...

For the first tike ever, the science is told in illustrated verse. A true treat for philosophically curious and artistically inquisitive!

©2024 Lande Jewels (P)2025 Lande Jewels

A bit misleading in the title and substance

As far as the title goes, few of the discoveries/inventions in this book have anything to do with putting "London at the Forefront of Science", and fewer still influence the scientific community of London. The few inventions/discoveries listed that do have ties to the London scientific community are not explored in the least, many without even a reference to London or any scientist in Great Britan being involved.

While the book covers many discoveries and inventions (there are around 52 "chapters" in this book, and the book is 58 minutes long, so it's simple math) these are reduced to 30 second to 2-minute chapters on a single topic, This allows for little more than the stating the name of the invention/discovery, listing some of the people involved, and giving less than a dictionary length response to what the discovery was, much less how any of them tie to putting London on the Forefront of Science.

As an example, the "chapter" on Dark Matter is 28 seconds long, Black Holes merits an in-depth 41 seconds of information, and the "chapter" on the "Linnaeus Classification" is 23 seconds long and does not even mention actual ties to the London scientific community or the Linnean Society of London, which could have been an actual tie into the title of the book, yet this was completely overlooked.

Unfortunately, this isn't even engaging enough to prompt listeners into digging further into any specific topic. Simply reading the Audible 2 paragraph synopsis of the book is more informative than any single chapter in the book.

Also, to state that "the science is told in illustrated verse. A true treat for philosophically curious and artistically inquisitive!" does not come across in the actual content or narration of the audiobook.

Even taking the illustrations out (since this is an audiobook review) none of the chapters are crafted or read in poetic verse, as the synopsis leads us to believe. In my mind the definition of "Illustrated Verse" should mean that the illustrations act as another layer of the poem, adding new dimensions of meaning rather than just decorating the text, but the text itself should be able to stand on its own to impart the full meaning of the prose.

I can't imagine that this is corrected in a print edition with illustrations, but that would be its saving grace, if the physical copy of the book greatly expanded on each topic. But even then, at 136 pages covering 52 disparate scientific discoveries & Inventions, does not inspire me to believe that 2 pages of illustrations per topic, coupled with the narration in the audiobook, would greatly change the impact of this work.