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HarperCollins, London, Date: 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1.05 kg; XVIII, 606 pages, includes a chapter notes, bibliography, index, illustrated throughout with reproductions of artworks, and facsimiles of documents, some of which are reproduced in colour. Colour illustrated binding. The author has given the world a new view of an outstanding man. She takes us deep into his multifaceted imagination and discovers the unique, exacting nature of his mind. She unfolds the vibrant, extraordinary emerging new world of late 17th-century science and ideas through the prism of his intellect. the only "damage" is a slight rubbing of the 2 external corners of the front panel of the illustrated softcover binding, and faint reading creases on the spine, and a Christmas annotation at the top of the 1st page. First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; architecture. ISBN: 0007107765. ISBN/EAN: 9780007107766. Inventory No: 0250373. . 9780007107766 2003. HarperCollins ISBN 0007107765 9780007107766 [AU]

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ISBN10: 0007107765, ISBN13: 9780007107766, [publisher: HarperCollins] Softcover The figure of Sir Christopher Wren looms large in English national consciousness. The imposing beauty of St Paul's Cathedral stands forever for the nation's achievement - its undamaged dome towering above the rubble of the Blitz in the Second World War a symbol of the London's indomitable fighting spirit. The man behind the work was as remarkable as the monuments he has left us. Lisa Jardine takes us deep into Wren's imagination and discovers the unique, exacting nature of his mind and the emerging new world of late-seventeenth-century science and ideas. Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity. A mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, a skilful anatomist, and a founder of The Royal Society, he eventually made a career in what he described in later life as 'Rubbish' - architecture, and the design and construction of public buildings. But he remained committed to science.The Monument to the Great Fire was built with a subterranean laboratory; the south-west tower of St Paul's was used as a vertical telescope during construction - both were designed to function as public monuments and as oversized scientific instruments. Wren was a major figure at a turning point in English history. He mapped moons and the trajectories of comets for kings; lived and worked under six monarchs; pursued ...

ISBN10: 0007107765, ISBN13: 9780007107766, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London] Softcover A biography of Sir Christopher Wren from one of Britain's best writers and historians The figure of Sir Christopher Wren looms large in English national consciousness. The imposing beauty of St Paul's Cathedral stands forever for the nation's achievement - its undamaged dome towering above the rubble of the Blitz in the Second World War a symbol of the London's indomitable fighting spirit. The man behind the work was as remarkable as the monuments he has left us. Lisa Jardine takes us deep into Wren's imagination and discovers the unique, exacting nature of his mind and the emerging new world of late-seventeenth-century science and ideas. Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity. A mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, a skilful anatomist, and a founder of The Royal Society, he eventually made a career in what he described in later life as 'Rubbish' - architecture, and the design and construction of public buildings. But he remained committed to science. The Monument to the Great Fire was built with a subterranean laboratory; the south-west tower of St Paul's was used as a vertical telescope during construction - both were designed to function as public monuments and as oversized scientific instruments. Wren was a major figure at a turning ...