On a Grander Scale: The outstanding career of Sir Christopher Wren by Lisa Jardine, HarperCollins, £25, ISBN 0007107757 Reviewed by Patricia Fara
THE short version of Christopher Wren’s life (possibly the shortest ever) appeared about a hundred years ago. It goes like this: “Sir Christopher Wren/Said, ‘I am going to dine with some men,/If anybody calls,/Say I am designing St Paul’s.'”
Now Lisa Jardine has produced a much longer biography, which shows how England’s greatest architect also helped build the foundations of modern science. Aptly titled On a Grander Scale, this blockbuster of a book is the first…
