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Sir Christopher Wren is famous as the greatest of English architects. His most acclaimed work, the new St Paul’s Cathedral, is one of the world’s most striking architectural monuments. If he had been nothing but an architect, Wren’s place in history would be eminently secure. He was in fact a good deal more. An artist, philosopher, and scientist, Wren characterized the renaissance ideal – a man of brilliant achievement in many diverse fields. He made significant discoveries in geometry, astronomy, anatomy, navigation and physics, and helped guide the seventeenth-century world into the modern scientific age. In an era of great minds Sir Christopher Wren ranked among the greatest.
Sir Christopher Wren is famous as the greatest of English architects. His most acclaimed work, the new St Paul’s Cathedral, is one of the world’s most striking architectural monuments. If he had been nothing but an architect, Wren’s place in history would be eminently secure. He was in fact a good deal more. An artist, philosopher, and scientist, Wren characterized the renaissance ideal – a man of brilliant achievement in many diverse fields. He made significant discoveries in geometry, astronomy, anatomy, navigation and physics, and helped guide the seventeenth-century world into the modern scientific age. In an era of great minds Sir Christopher Wren ranked among the greatest.
