On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060959104 |
| ISBN 10 | 006095910X |
| Title | On a Grander Scale |
| Author | Lisa Jardine |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2004-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
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