![]() The Lord Brouncker, Mr Boyle, Mr Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paule Neile, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Petty, Mr Ball, Mr Rooke, Mr Wren, Mr Hill. These persons following according to the usual custom of most of them, met together at Gresham College to hear Mr Wren's lecture, viz. In fact, the report on one of these meetings reads:. He undoubtedly played a major role in the early life of what would become the Royal Society his great breadth of expertise in so many different subjects helping in the exchange of ideas between the various scientists. It was from these meetings that the Royal Society, England’s premier scientific body, was to develop. They attended his London lectures and in 1660, initiated formal weekly meetings. He continued to meet the men with whom he had frequent discussions in Oxford. Wren took up this new work with enthusiasm. He was provided with a set of rooms and a stipend and was required to give weekly lectures in both Latin and English to all who wished to attend (admission was free). His days as a fellow of All Souls ended when Wren was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London in 1657. in 1653, Wren was elected a fellow of All Souls College in the same year and began an active period of research and experiment in Oxford. in 1651, and three years later received M.A. This connection probably influenced Wren’s studies of science and mathematics at college. This group, whose activities led to the formation of Royal Society, was consisted of a number of distinguished mathematicians, original and sometimes brilliant practical workers and experimental philosophers. John Wilkins was a member of a group of distinguished scholars. However, Wren became closely associated with John Wilkins, who served as warden in Wadham. The curriculum was still based on the study of Aristotle and the discipline of the Latin language, and it is anachronistic to imagine that he received scientific training in the modern sense. At Wadham, Wren’s formal education was conventional. Wren entered Wadham College, Oxford, on June 25, 1650. It was probably through Holder that Wren met Sir Charles Scarburgh, with whom he assisted in the anatomical studies. During this time period, Wren manifested an interest in the design and construction of mechanical instruments. William Holder, who married Wren’s elder sister Susan in 1643. According to Parentalia, he was ‘initiated’ in the principles of mathematics by Dr. Some of his youthful exercises preserved or recorded (though few are datable) showed that he received a thorough grounding in Latin he also learned to draw. Parentalia, the biography compiled by his son a third Christopher, places him there ‘for some short time’ before going to Oxford (in [650). The story that he was at Westminster School from 1641 to 1646 is unsubstantiated. Wren’s schooling is not at all definitive. Little is known about Wren’s life at Windsor and it is misleading to say that Wren and the son of Charles I became childhood friends there and “often played together”. ![]() After his father's appointment as dean of Windsor in March 1635, his family spent part of each year there. He was first taught at home by a private tutor and his father. John Aubrey’s confusion of the two persisted occasionally into late twentieth-century literature.Īs a child Wren ‘seem’d consumptive’ - the kind of sickly child who survives into robust old age. A previous child of Dr Wren, also named Christopher, was born on November 22, 1631, and had died the same day. Wren was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on October 20, 1632, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren DD (1589-1658), at that time the rector of East Knoyle and later dean of Windsor. His epitaph reads, " Si monumentum requiris, circumspice,'," "If you're looking for his legacy, look around." As England turned away from Europe as the main stage of her imperial ambition, and looked to territories further afield in the Americas and in Asia, it was fitting that a new capital should be built for a new empire after much of the city had been destroyed in the Great Fire. Wren left an indelible mark on English architecture and was a major figure of the English Renaissance. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–1682), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note such as Oxford University's Sheldonian Theatre, where convocations are held. Sir Christopher James Wren, (October 20, 1632–February 25, 1723) was a seventeenth century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time. Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note in London after the Great Fire Sir Christopher Wren in Godfrey Kneller's 1711 portraitĪrchitecture, physics, astronomy, and mathematicsĭesigner of 53 churches including St. ![]()
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