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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine (Hardcover, 2002)

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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren. Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity. He nevertheless remained committed to science.

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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 astronomy and medicine through two civil wars, the English Commonwealth, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and the eventual extinction of the Stuart dynasty. Jardine explores also Wren's personal motivations and passions. A sincere man with a remarkable capacity for friendship, his career was shaped by lasting associations forged during a turbulent boyhood, and a lifelong loyalty to the memory of his father's master and benefactor, the martyred king, Charles I. Everything Wren undertook he envisaged on a grander scale - bigger, better, more enduring than anything that had gone before.