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	Christopher Wren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Christopher Wren, PRS (20 October 1632–25 February 1723) was an English scientist and architect of the 17th century, most famous for his role in the re-building of London's churches after the Great Fire of London of 1666.
		Wren is particularly known for his design for St Paul's Cathedral, one of very few cathedrals in England to have been built after the medieval period, and the only Renaissance cathedral in the country.
		Christopher Wren was knighted in 1673 and served as a member of Parliament in 1685-1688 and 1702-1705.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Wren (696 words)

	WREN - LoveToKnow Article on WREN
		Wren also designed a colonnade to enclose a large piazza forming a clear space round the church, somewhat after the fashion of Bernini's colonnade in front of St Peter's, but space in the city was too valuable to admit of this.
		Wren was an enthusiastic admirer of Bernini's designs, and visited Paris in 1665 in order to see him and his proposed scheme for the rebuilding of the Louvre.
		Many of these carry on the old belief that the wren was the king of birds, a belief connected with the fable that once the fowls of the air resolved to choose for their leader that one of them which should mount highest.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WR/WREN.htm (1501 words)

	Sir Christopher Wren
		Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), architect, mathematician, and astronomer, was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on 20 October 1632, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren DD (1589-1658), at that time rector of East Knoyle and later dean of Windsor, and his wife, Mary, the daughter of Richard Cox of Fonthill, Wiltshire.
		Wren's understanding of structures and of the classical language of architecture, his empirical and innovative attitude to prototypes, and his regard for the particulars of his brief were all manifested in a more substantial work, the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, proposed and ultimately paid for by Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, formerly warden of All Souls.
		Christopher Wren (1675-1747), the eldest surviving son of Sir Christopher Wren and Faith Coghill, was born at Scotland Yard, London, on 18 February 1675.
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	MSN Encarta - Christopher Wren
		Wren was born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on October 20, 1632, the son of a clergyman.
		Wren's designs for St. Paul's Cathedral were accepted in 1675, and he superintended the building of the vast baroque structure until its completion in 1710.
		Wren was knighted in 1673; he subsequently served for many years as a member of Parliament.
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	Wren, Sir Christopher. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Though now known as the greatest architect of the English baroque style, in his time Wren was a celebrated astronomer and mathematician who, in 1660, was one of the founders of the Royal Society.
		Wren also built residences in London and in the country, and these, as well as his public works, received the stamp of his distinctive style.
		Wren was knighted in 1675, and is buried in the crypt of St. Paul’s.
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	Christopher Wren
		Christopher Wren, the son of the Dean of Windsor, and nephew of Dr. Mathew Wren, the Bishop of Norwich, was born in 1632.
		When Wren was later asked to design a new theatre in Oxford, he decided to use the information that he had gained when studying the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome.
		When Christopher Wren died in 1723 he became the first person to be buried in St.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARwren.htm (726 words)

	Christopher Wren
		Just before the fire Wren was asked by Charles II to prepare a scheme for the restoration of the old St Paul's.
		Wren also designed a colonnade to enclose a large piazza forming a clear space around the church, somewhat after the fashion of Bernini's colonnade in front of St. Peter's, but space in the city was too valuable to admit of this.
		Wren (D.C.L. from 1660) was knighted in 1673, and was elected president of the Royal Society in 1680.
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	The Galileo Project
		Christopher Wren was the Rector of East Knoyle.
		Wren filled a lot of academic commissions--including a new quadrangle and later a chapel for Trinity College, Oxford (Ralph Bathurst, President of the College), the library for Trinity College, Cambridge (Isaac Barrow, Master).
		Christopher Wren, Parentalia: or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, (London, 1750).
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	Christopher Wren - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Christopher Wren (October 20, 1632 - February 25, 1723) was an English architect of the 17th century, famous for his role in the re-building of London's churches after the Great Fire of London of 1666.
		Wren was also one of the founder member of the Royal Society, of which he was president from 1680 to 1682.
		Christopher Wren was Knighted in 1652 and also served as a member of the Parliament in 1685-1688 and 1702-1705.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Sir_Christopher_Wren (379 words)

	Sir Christopher Wren - Freer/Edwards
		Wren was born on Oct. 20, 1632, in East Knoyle, a village in Wiltshire, in southwestern England.
		Wren was always interested in architecture, and he was a superb draftsman, but he did not consider himself a professional architect.
		Wren died at 90 and was buried in St. Paul's.
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	The Sir Christopher Wren Building \| Wren Building
		The Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is the oldest college building in the United States and the oldest of the restored public buildings in Williamsburg.
		The Wren Building was gutted by fire in 1705 and was rebuilt by 1716 with funds provided by Queen Anne of England.
		Today, as the Wren Building enters its fourth century, it continues to be used as an academic building, housing faculty offices on the third floor and classrooms throughout the building.
	www.wm.edu /about/wren/history.php (683 words)

	Christopher Wren - architect and astronomer : National Maritime Museum
		Wren was born in 1632 in the village of East Knoyle in Wiltshire, where his father was Rector.
		Christopher Wren, with several others, including Robert Hooke and the diarist John Evelyn, took on the task of surveying the extent of the damage of the Great Fire.
		Wren's original scheme was to build a three-sided arrangement of buildings incorporating a block by James Webb which had been intended as a new palace for King Charles II until the project ran out of funds.
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	Wren
		Christopher Wren senior was installed as Dean on 4 April 1635 and there the young Christopher was brought up by his father and by an older sister who slotted into the role of a mother to him.
		Christopher had a private tutor during his early years, then when he was nine years old he was sent to Westminster School in London.
		Wren, despite the tragedy in his personal life at this time and his great disappointment at the reaction to his plans for St Paul's, set to work again and produced a third design based on a Latin Cross with a large dome.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Wren.html (2876 words)

	Collection Feature: Architecture & Urban Design
		Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), eminent scientist and a founder of the Royal Society, is recognized today as one of the world’s greatest architects and a pioneer urban designer whose vision for London endures to this day.
		Christopher was the only son of Dr. Christopher Wren, Dean of Windsor.
		In 1661 Wren was elected Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford.
	spencer.lib.ku.edu /exhibits/wren (459 words)

	Wren (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Architecture: Sir Christopher Wren was an English architect of the seventeenth century, famous for his role in the re-building of London's churches after the Great Fire of London of 1666.
		The club is affectionately known as 'The Wrens' after the 'Blue Wren'; a small blue tailed Wren native to the Rydalmere area which is the mascot of the club.
		The Blue Wren is the mascot of several sporting and community based clubs in Rydalmere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wren_(disambiguation) (224 words)

	Christopher Wren.
		Christopher Wren senior was a well educated man, having graduated from St John's College Oxford before entering the Church.
		Wren was part of a scientific discussion group at Gresham College London that, in 1660, initiated formal weekly meetings.
		Wren's mathematical work now exists, if at all, in detached fragments rescued from oblivion, some in print, and a little more in bare outline in the published work of contemporaries, especially Wallis.
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	Amazon.co.uk: His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wren's long life spanned the English and Scientific Revolutions, the Restoration of the monarchy in 1688, the Great Fire of London and the creation of the most enduring of all London monuments, St Paul's Cathedral.
		As Tinniswood points out, Wren was a key player in all these events, "a man who made ground-breaking discoveries in optics, astronomy, anatomy, mathematics; a man who combined his scientific interests with an architectural career spanning six reigns and nearly six decades; the arbiter of architectural taste to generations of designers and courtiers".
		The domestic details of Wren's complex private life are carefully detailed, but Tinniswood often seems overawed by his hero, especially when trying to come to grips with the finer points of Wren's mathematical achievements and his extraordinary architectural output, which require a more scholarly grasp than Tinniswood is able to provide.
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	Amazon.com: His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren: Books: Adrian Tinniswood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christopher Wren once told his friend, the antiquary and folklorist John Aubrey, that he was born in his father's parsonage house at East Knoyle in Wiltshire on Thursday 20 October 1631.
		Wren was born in 1632 and since his father was King's Chaplain at Windsor Castle one of little Christopher's playmates was the young Prince Charles (later Charles II).
		Wren's astonishingly comprehensive genius reached into many fields, and he was an advocate to encourage the way we do science in the modern world.
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	No. 1567: Christopher Wren, Physician
		Wren's interest in architecture and city planning began shortly before the Great Fire, and his great architectural output followed it.
		Wren was only fifteen when he began assisting a medical professor with his dissections.
		Wren was that rare person, without any real competition, who constantly expressed the beauty of ideas in stone, in brass -- and even in flesh and blood.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1567.htm (576 words)

	Sir Christopher Wren adoption
		John Aubrey was a close friend of Sir Christopher Wren.
		As a founder member and President of the Royal Society from 1680-2, Wren was still active in 1691, the date of Cramer's copy.
		Christopher Wren is to be adopted as a Brother: and Sr.
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	wren.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Christopher Wren, along with his associates, represented the dominant force in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century architecture.
		There are now dozens of Wren churches in London, and many more by his two associates Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh.
		The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is by Wren, and his direct influence even reached America in the Wren Building of William and Mary College in Virginia.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~rviau/ids/Artworks/wren.html (231 words)

	WReN - Christopher Wren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christopher Wren begain training at the age of 15 as an anatomical assistant to his personal physician Sir Charles Scarburgh who was a student and favorite of William Harvey.
		At Oxford, the teenaged Wren, together with Richard Lower, performed experiments involving the injection of substances into the vein of dogs (documented in a letter by Robert Boyle) and injected dyes in the cerebral vessels of post-mortem human material leading to the description of the aarterial circulation bearing the eponym fo Sir Thomas Willis.
		Sir Christopher Wren subsequently was elected President of the Royal Society and it is in recognition of his contribution to science and architechture, that the logo design and architecture of this website is dedicated to his name.
	personal.anderson.ucla.edu /howard.kim/kruger/wren.html (223 words)

	Christopher Wren - England's greatest architect
		Christopher Wren attended Westminster School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with a masters degree in 1651.
		At this stage Wren was a pure scientist (by the standards of the time) focusing on astronomy, physics, and anatomy.
		Such a drastic renovation was not surprisingly rejected, but Wren was appointed to be one of the architectural commissioners overseeing the rebuilding of the city.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/christopher_wren.htm (572 words)

	Wren, Sir Christopher on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER [Wren, Sir Christopher] 1632-1723, English architect.
		Sir Christopher Wren's `jewel of Oxford' is rock bottom of the theatre comfort league.(News)
		Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the hospital was founded in 1682 by King Charles II as a home for British army veterans, and is today home to
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wren-s1ir.asp (861 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: The Monument, or, Christopher Wren's Roman accent
		Wren, a polymath and a consummately trained humanist, and two other prominent scholars made up a committee whose task was to compose inscriptions for the Monument.
		Although few artists knew Latin, Wren's redoubtable command of that language was a crucial determining factor in his practice as an architect, a fundamental point not made in the scholarly literature.
		Today, Christopher Wren's Monument has to be retrieved from a densely built-up urban context.
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