The English architect Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) interpreted the baroque style in England and dominated English architecture for 50 years. His most important work is St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Christopher Wren was born in East Knoyle,...

Christopher Wren, best known as the architect who restored most of London's churches after a devastating fire, was also a skilled geometer, and did valuable work in the study of speed and the cycloid. Wren was born on October 20, 1632, in East Knoyle,...

Sir Christopher Wren epitomizes the Renaissance man. Adept in languages, adroit in personal relationships, and a brilliant mathematician, he became--with no architectural training--the greatest English architect of his day. The classical sources of his...

1632-1723 English polymath who, after the great fire of London (1666), designed the new St. Paul's Cathedral and over 50 churches. He also designed the Greenwich Observatory. Wren was a charter member of the Royal Society, becoming that...

Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many...

WHAT couldn't he do? Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is rightly famous as the maker of London's largest and most magnificent cathedral, St Paul's. Yet he came to architecture and town planning almost by chance, in his 30s, from a successful career in astronomy. ...

Modern biographies of Sir Christopher Wren have all relied preponderantly on the detailed, near-contemporaneous account in Parentalia; or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, published in London in 1750. Compiled by Sir Christopher's son Christopher and edited by the younger Christopher's son...

Queen Elizabeth II strolled Friday through a replica of a fortress built at what would become America's first permanent English settlement, saw remains of the actual structure and even engaged in a little potty humor.The British monarch, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and Virginia...

Since the 16th century, when they ferried King Henry VIII between his riverside palaces, Thames boatmen have plied the waters, fathers passing detailed knowledge of the river to their sons.Now, a new licensing system designed by the European Union threatens to sweep away centuries of...