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Last Name Wren
Given Name Christopher
alt. Names C. W. ; Christophorus Wren / Sir Christopher Wren ;
Marriage
Children Christopher Wren jr. 1675-1747
Year born 1632 in East-Knoyle in Wiltshire, UK
Year died 1723
Place of death London, UK
Father's occupation Christopher Wren sen. 1589-1658, clergyman of the Church of England
Relatives
Education early education in the classics, astronomy & physiology; Wadham College, Oxford (B.A., 1653 M.A), Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for plates w. microscopic motifs in ->Robert Hooke (1635-1703): Micrographia (London 1666); anatomical plates for Thomas Willis: Cerebri Anatome (1664 & 1666)
Patronage Royal Society (founding member); City of London (rebuilding London after the great fire of 1666), since 1668 as Royal Architect; King Charles II
Collaborators ->Robert Hooke, curator of Royal Society; brain anatomist Thomas Willis (1621-1675)
Techniques drawing, esp. of objects seen through a microscope; anatomical copper engraving ; first 3D lunar model 1661 (not preserved but depicted in a painting)
Sample(s) www.uh.edu/engines/epi1567.htm ; www.oldlondonmaps.com/viewspages/0345.html ;
Archival sources D.Cavalcanti et al: Anatomy, technology, art & culture, Neurosurgical Focus 27,3 (2009), 16f.; Neri 2011: 110-35;
Published sources AKL; Grünthal 1957: 102-5; 122-3; Clarke & Dewhurst 1972: 71-2; Schoonover 2010: 36-7; L. Weaver: C.W.,Scientist,Scholar&Architect,N.Y.1928; Lisa Jardine:On a Grander Scale,London2004;M.Power:Trans.Conn.Acad.Arts1945:37-44;Lapage 1961:23f; Putscher 1972:54f. ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 1992 ;
other famous as one of Britain's most distinguished mathematicians & architects (design of St. Paul's Cathedral in London), Prof. at Gresham College, London & Oxford 1661-73;
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