His Invention So Fertile: A Life Of Christopher Wren

Author: Adrian Tinniswood

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Price : $45.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780712673648
Publisher : vinteb
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Weight (g) : 0.667
Publication date : 02 May 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
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This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend - a man who was the Surveyor of the King's Works, a pioneering anatomist and mathematician, who devised new navigational instruments and lectured on planetary motion.

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A superb biography of Christopher Wren who was not only perhaps the greatest ever British architect but also a polymath who throughout his long life undertook important astronomical, mathematical and anatomical work that made a vital contribution to the ideas of Newton, Halley and Boyle. Tinniswood shows us the man behind the legend and paints a colourful portrait of a fascinating period of English history.