On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine
The figure of Sir Christopher Wren looms large in English national consciousness. In this biography, Lisa Jardine explores the unique, exacting nature of Wren's mind and the emerging new world of late-17th-century science and ideas.
Of Ingenious Pursuits (1999): 'LJ has the knack of making science easy to understandHer book brilliantly recaptures the excitement of the seventeenth-century scientists and the new word of objects they were finding and theorizing' Roy Porter Of Wordly Goods: 'A pleasure to read, as well as a pleasure to hold' Observer
Lisa Jardine is Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; she is an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She writes and reviews for the major UK national newspapers and magazines, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the Orwell Prize, and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize. She is currently Chair of Judges for the 2002 Booker Prize. Lisa Jardine is married to the architect John Hare, and has three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007107759 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007107757 |
| Title | On a Grander Scale |
| Author | Lisa Jardine |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
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