ON A GRANDER SCALE (CHRISTOPHER WREN) (PB)

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. 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 mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, and a skilful anatomist. He eventually made a career in architecture, but he remained committed to science.