Sir Christopher Wren
by Lawrence Weaver
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About this eBook
- Author
- Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
- Title
- Sir Christopher Wren : Scientist, scholar and architect
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Offices of "Country Life", Ltd., 1923.
- Credits
- David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NA: Fine Arts: Architecture
- Subject
- Architects -- England -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 70352
- Release Date
- March 23, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.Untitled
- 7.PREFACE
- 8.AUTHORITIES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 9.CONTENTS
- 10.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 11.Untitled
- 12.Untitled
- 13.CHAPTER I PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD
- 14.CHAPTER II OXFORD CAREER AND EARLY INVENTIONS
- 15.CHAPTER III FAMILY LIFE
- 16.CHAPTER IV ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND NATURAL SCIENTIST
- 17.CHAPTER V BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE AND VISIT TO PARIS
- 18.CHAPTER VI TOWN-PLANNING
- 19.CHAPTER VII ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
- 20.CHAPTER VIII THE CITY CHURCHES
- 21.CHAPTER IX CHELSEA, HAMPTON COURT, AND GREENWICH
- 22.CHAPTER X OTHER BUILDINGS: PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC
- 23.CHAPTER XI WREN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: LAST YEARS
- 24.CHAPTER XII THE PROFESSIONAL MAN
- 25.CHAPTER XIII STUDENT AND SCHOLAR
- 26.CHAPTER XIV “THE ARCHITECT OF ADVENTURE”
- 27.APPENDIX I A NOTE IN AMPLIFICATION OF THE REFERENCE IN CHAPTER IV. TO PASCAL’S PROBLEM
- 28.APPENDIX II AN ATTEMPT AT A WREN CHRONOLOGY
- 29.APPENDIX III A NOTE ON SOME PORTRAITS OF WREN
- 30.INDEX
- 31.Untitled
- 32.Untitled
- 33.Untitled
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