On a Grander Scale - The Outstanding Life and Tumultuous Times of Sir Christopher Wren

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Jardine, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, is the director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, the centenary professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She lives with her husband and three children in London. Zusammenfassung Everything Sir Christopher Wren undertook, he envisaged on a grander scale -- bigger, better, more enduring than anything that had gone before. A versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity, he was a mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, a skillful anatomist, and a founder of the Royal Society. Eventually, he made a career in what he described disparagingly in later life as "Rubbish" -- the architecture, design, and construction of public buildings. Through the prism of Wren's tumultuous life and brilliant intellect, historian Lisa Jardine unfolds the vibrant, extraordinary emerging new world of late-seventeenth-century science and ideas.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Jardine
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2004
• EAN: 9780060959104
• ISBN: 978-0-06-095910-4
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, HISTORY: EUROPE, ARCHITECTURE: History / General, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain