On a Grander Scale: The outstanding career of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine, HarperCollins, 拢25, ISBN 0007107757 Reviewed by Patricia Fara
THE short version of Christopher Wren’s life (possibly the shortest ever) appeared about a hundred years ago. It goes like this: “Sir Christopher Wren/Said, ‘I am going to dine with some men,/If anybody calls,/Say I am designing St Paul’s.'”
Now Lisa Jardine has produced a much longer biography, which shows how England’s greatest architect also helped build the foundations of modern science. Aptly titled On a Grander Scale, this blockbuster of a book is the first…
