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Book reviews: On a Grander Scale: A scientific genius who was architect of his own destiny
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ON A GRANDER SCALE
Lisa Jardine
HarperCollins, GBP 25
CHRISTOPHER Wren was a scientist before embarking on his career in
architecture - "rubbish", as he called it - that made him famous. He
was a virtuoso mathematician, pioneering physician and professor of
astronomy.
A fascinating and ideal subject then, for a writer such as Lisa
Jardine, who has so successfully brought the byways of history to a
mass audience. And yet her ample biography is a disappointment.
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Monarchist master of all trades This Life of Christopher Wren tips the balance too far towards science, says Michael Prodger
The Sunday Telegraph London
; On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine HarperCollins, pounds 25, 600 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN THE PREFACE to her weighty new biography of Sir Christopher Wren, Lisa Jardine claims that hers is "the first integrated modern account
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Books: Epic erections Samuel Pepys and Christopher Wren helped to build modern Britain. Diana Souhami (left) and Jay Merrick (right) assess the leading lights of Restoration London
The Independent - London
; On a Grander Scale: the outstanding career of Sir Christopher Wren Lisa Jardine HarperCollins pounds 25 600pp SIR CHRISTOPHER Wren's greatness is embodied in St Paul's cathedral, an architectural masterwork that took 40 years to complete. Lisa Jardine's new biography puts that stunning but singular
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Culture: Books: The genius who sought eternity; Ross Reyburn On A Grander Scale - The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren. By Lisa Jardine (HarperCollins, pounds 25). Reviewed by.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Ross Reyburn Britain today remains something of an architectural wilderness where cost rather than design remains the greatest priority. Fortunately our ancestors were more aware of the value of this most neglected of professions as Lisa Jardine demonstrates in her immenselydetailed new
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From St. Paul's to silk stockings. (episode from the life of English architecht Christopher Wren) (Centrespread)(Brief Article)
History Today
; SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (1632-1723), most famous for redesigning and remodelling St Paul's Cathedral which was officially opened 300 years ago next month, is also well-known as the architect of the City churches, as Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, as founding and active member of The Royal
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DID WREN DESIGN THE WREN BUILDING THE CONNECTION OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST ARCHITECT TO THE WILLIAM AND MARY LANDMARK HAS BEEN QUESTIONED THROUGH THE AGES.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: STEPHEN HARRIMAN, STAFF WRITER THE COLLEGE of William and Mary at Williamsburg, chartered in 1693 by England's co-monarchs, is the second oldest institution of higher learning in British North America. Its centerpiece, the Wren Building, begun in 1695 and completed three years after, is the
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