Eureka : what success hails progress 2025

Through eloquent and artfully illustrated verse Lande Jewels rediscovers past and present paradigms that shaped the perception of current reality. Explore the shift from Geocentrism to Heliocentrism prompted by the works of Copernicus and Galilei, the Newtonian gravity and Laws of Motion that led to further works of Max Planck on the nature of light and Einstein Relativity Theory. Delve into the concepts of black holes and dark matter as well as quantum theories that aim to explain the phenomena on quantum scale. Note how the existence of life was explained through spontaneous generation followed by Darwinian Evolution and trace the developments of germ theory leading to antibiotics and the discovery of viruses. Learn about the research into atoms structures and how it prompted the development of periodic table of elements. Discover how works of Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday and Nicola Tesla contributed to the electricity dependent contemporary world and find incredible inventions explained - from telegraph to artificial intelligence!

'Eureka' is relevant across different generations-from late primary school pupils studying STEM subjects to seasoned technicians recognising the impact of science and technology, to anyone who is curious and want to read in a beautiful, memorable format.

'Eureka' is the 15th title in the London Baby series and can be read as a standalone title.