Entrée principale:

Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930.

Titre et auteur:

Sir Christopher Wren : scientist, scholar and architect / by Sir Lawrence Weaver.

Publication:

London : Offices of "Country life", Ltd. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.

Description:

xiv, 173 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-x) and index.
Parentage and childhood -- Oxford career and early inventions -- Family life -- Astronomer, mathematician, and natural scientist -- Beginnings of architecture and visit to Paris -- Town-planning -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- The city churches -- Chelsea, Hampton Court, and Greenwich -- Other buildings : public and domestic -- Wren and his contemporaries : last years -- The professional man -- Student and scholar -- "The architect of adventure" -- Appendix I.A note in amplification of the reference in chapter IV to Pascal's problem -- Appendix II. An attempt at a Wren chronology -- Appendix III. A note on some portraits of Wren.

Sujet:

Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723.
Architects England Biography.
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architects.
England.

Classification/genre:

Biographies.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 149711
Cote: NA44.W945.9 W43 1923
Statut: Disponible