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	Christopher Wren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Christopher Wren, FRS (20 October 1632–25 February 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.
		Born in 1632 in Wiltshire, Wren was the son of the dean of Windsor.
		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 (608 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 (D.C.L. from 1660) was knighted in 1673, and was elected president of the Royal Society in 1681.
		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)

	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.
		In 1699 the colonial capital was moved from Jamestown to the newly formed city of Williamsburg, and the Wren Building, then the largest structure in the area, became the temporary headquarters of the government from 1700 until 1704, when the Capitol was completed.
		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)

	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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wr/Wren-Sir.html (387 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 (527 words)

	Wren, Sir Christopher
		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.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/Wren/1.html (695 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.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~sfreer/wren.html (688 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Christopher Wren was the Rector of East Knoyle.
		Wren is remembered of course as England's great architect; he also wrote five unpublished commentaries on the theory of architecture.
		Wren managed to beg off, but military engineering bulks fairly large in the Oxford topics, and he was consulted on the works at Tangier.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/wren.html (1682 words)

	Wren
		Christopher Wren senior was a well educated man, having graduated from St John's College Oxford before entering the Church.
		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.
		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 (2826 words)

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		Sir Christopher Wren, along with his associates, represented the dominant force in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century architecture.
		For the next two centuries, and until the advent of the modern skyscraper, St. Paul's dominated the London skyline as a symbol of the stability of the Church of England and English government and society.
		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)

	History of Sir Christopher Wren's House Hotel - Windsor Hotels
		Sir Christopher Wren, born in 1632 in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, first made his mark as a scientist becoming a Professor of Astronomy at London's Gresham College in 1657.
		Wren's father was the Dean of Windsor and in his early years the family lived in the Deanery within the grounds of Windsor Castle.
		Wren supervised the building and completion of the magnificent Windsor Guildhall, where the ground floor has exactly the same plaster treatment as the Sir Christopher Wren's House.
	www.thamesweb.co.uk /wren/wrenhistory.html (866 words)

	Directory - Arts: Architecture: History: Architects: W: Wren, Sir Christopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) · cached · Biography of the great English architect responsible for St Paul's Cathedral, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St Andrews.
		Christopher Wren · iweb · cached · Spartacus provides a portrait and biography of the great English architect, descriptions of his major works and some comments on them the diaries of Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe.
		Wren, Sir Christopher 1632-1723 · iweb · cached · A biography from Encyclopedia.com, with a description of Saint Paul's Cathedral and bibliography.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=268881 (257 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Wren, Sir Christopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sir Isaac Newton in his Principia named Christopher as one of the pre-eminent mathematicians of the day, but it was as an architect that he was to become famous.
		Wren declined, but Charles did not forget their exchanges and in 1665 Wren was consulted about repairs to a rundown Saint Paul’s Cathedral.
		Wren’s design concepts were carried into the early years of the eighteenth century by his pupil Hawksmoor and his colleague Vanbrugh.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4807 (2105 words)

	Wren, Sir Christopher -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Wren, the son of a rector, was the youngest child, the only boy, and delicate in health.
		Before Christopher was three, his father was appointed dean of Windsor, and the Wren family moved into the precincts of the court.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077544 (890 words)

	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.
		Wren joined a group of mathematicians, scientists and scholars that met to discuss new ideas and in 1662 Charles II granted them a charter to establish the Royal Society of London for Promoting Natural Knowledge.
		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.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARwren.htm (726 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Architecture: History: Architects: W: Wren, Sir Christopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christopher Wren - Spartacus provides a portrait and biography of the great English architect, descriptions of his major works and some comments on them the diaries of Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe.
		Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) - Biography of the great English architect responsible for St Paul's Cathedral, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St Andrews.
		Wren, Sir Christopher 1632-1723 - A biography from Encyclopedia.com, with a description of Saint Paul's Cathedral and bibliography.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/W/Wren,_Sir_Christopher (280 words)

	AbfiMagazine.com - Architecture - On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren
		Sir Christopher Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity.
		Sir Christopher Wren was a major figure at a turning point in English history.
		Wren was a sincere, intensely moral man with a remarkable capacity for friendship.
	www.abfimagazine.com /architecture/data/wrengranderscale.htm (437 words)

	Andecdotes Of Sir Christopher Wren (1623-1723)
		Sir Christopher Wren was a small and weakly child, but early showed a strong mind.
		The carelessness of the citizen who set the fire made it possible for Wren to build one of the noblest churches the world has ever known, and to plan a more splendid city than has ever been built before or since.
		Wren had a large measure of tact, and the ability of impressing a sense of his talents upon all men he met with.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles10/famous-buildings-49.shtml (299 words)

	Powell's Books - On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren by by Lisa Jardine
		Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity.
		Wren was a major figure at a turning point in English history.
		Christopher Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060199741-1 (597 words)

	Wren Building at Colonial Williamsburg
		The College of William and Mary's Wren Building is the oldest academic structure still in use in America.
		The Reverend Hugh Jones, a William and Mary mathematics professor, wrote in 1724 that the College Building was "modelled by Sir Christopher Wren" and sowed the seed of a dispute yet to be settled.
		Wren was royal architect, and his office may have drawn up the plans, but the only direct evidence that Wren designed the building personally is Jones's statement, which is much disputed.
	www.history.org /Almanack/places/hb/hbwren.cfm (1023 words)

	Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens
		Sir Christopher Wren was born at Knoyle, Wiltshire, on October 20, 1632, and died in London on February 25, 1723.
		Wren's reputation as a mathematician has been overshadowed by his fame as an architect, but he was Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford from 1661 to 1673, and for some time president of the Royal Society.
		Like Huygens, Wren, and Halley, he made efforts to find the law of force under which the planets move about the sun, and he believed the law to be that of the inverse square of the distance.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/17thCentury/RouseBall/RB_Math17C.html (2269 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723)
		Portrait of Christopher Wren by Sir Godfrey Kneller ©
		Although he is known as an architect and designer, Sir Christopher Wren's career did not begin with training in these disciplines.
		Wren's most famous contribution to architecture is his dome at St Paul's Cathedral and, fittingly, he is buried there in the crypt.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/wren_christopher.shtml (350 words)

	The Sir Christopher Wren Building \| Wren Building
		The Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is the oldest academic building in continuous use in the United States.
		Each time the structure was rebuilt, and for more than three centuries, it has been "the soul of the College." In the building, generations of William and Mary students have attended classes and lectures, enjoyed meals and attended chapel services.
		The major components of the project were restoration of the architectural features such as floors and paneling; replacement of mechanical systems; safety upgrades; and repair and stabilization of the walls and foundation.
	www.wm.edu /about/wren (206 words)

	Assessment (from Wren, Sir Christopher) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		This species is called the winter wren in North America; in Eurasia it is known simply as the wren.
		Wrens are among the easiest of birds to attract to the home garden with the offer of a birdhouse (see Birds).
		U.S. writer Christopher Morley produced a wide variety of works—including poetry, fiction, drama, and essays—displaying a characteristic charm, wit, warmth, and enthusiasm for literature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-8010?tocId=8010 (916 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: On a Grander Scale : The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wren was appointed to the Rebuilding Commission established after the devastating Great Fire of London in 1666, becoming in time responsible for the design and rebuilding of all 51 churches destroyed by the fire, and for the reconstruction of St. Paul's.
		Born in 1632, Wren was to live 91 years, to survive the English civil war (despite his father's ties to Charles I), and to thrive after the Restoration as the royal surveyor for five consecutive monarchs.
		Sir Christopher Wren was born to a life of privilege that evaporated when Charles I was deposed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060199741?v=glance (2099 words)

	And Speaking of Sir Christopher Wren... - Architecture Forum
		He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on disections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.
		Wren was the leader of a scientific discussion group at Gresham College London that, in 1660, initiated formal weekly meetings.
		Wren was president of the Royal Society from 1680 to 1682.
	www.designcommunity.com /discussion/8469.html (526 words)

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