Sir Christopher Wren: compleat philosopher.

Sir Christopher Wren. A biography

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 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...

" The Scientific Enterprise 1 - 1

The scientific approach today is essentially that of the founders of the Royal Society of London, the oldest organization for the advancement of science in the world, chartered in 1662, Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and the other founders were by and large professional men who were interested in the "new philosophy," or natural science, that was then emerging. They admired in particular the e...

Esmolol may abolish volatile anesthetic-induced postconditioning by scavenging reactive oxygen species.

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