Sir Christopher Wren: Compleat Philosopher

Sir Christopher Wren: compleat philosopher.

a very eminent degree, being highly accomplished in the mathematical and philosophical sciences, as well as in the theory and practice of architecture. He was born in 1632, and made great advances in mathematics at 16 years of age. Being an Oxford scholar, he was one of those learned men who first associated together there for their mutual im¬ provement in natural and experimental philosophy, a...

Sir Christopher Wren. A biography

The bio-medical pursuits of Christopher Wren.

IN A YEAR characterized by men walking about on the moon, some will ask why we should concern ourselves with the exploits of a great architect, once a geometer and mathematician, an astronomer, the father of blood transfusion and above all-a great public servant. My answer is simply that in the commemoration of another great citizen-scientist, Dr. Sydney Monckton Copeman, a physician with unive...

A note on theories of respiration and muscular action in England c. 1660 (Christopher Wren).

IN 1647 CHRISTOPHER WREN, then fifteen years old, stayed for a time at the home of the physician, Royalist, and friend of William Harvey, Sir Charles Scarburgh. The evidence for this comes from two letters written by Wren, one to his father, the other to the mathematician William Oughtred. Both letters were printed in Parentalia.I From them we know that Scarburgh treated Wren for an illness, th...

The Compleat Edition

The nature of a scholarly edition, as of any bibliographical tool, is determined by the historical, technical, social and rhetorical dimensions of the genre. This situatedness puts constrains of the force of scholarly editions: what they can and what they can not do. Claims have been made for the potent reproductive force of scholarly editions, as well as for the making of massive digital facsi...