The Man Who Built a City (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosemary Weir
- First Published: 1971
- Time of Work: 1632–1723
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Sir Christopher Wren, Dr. Christopher Wren, Matthew Wren, Faith Coghill, Jane Fitzwilliam, Christopher Wren, William Holder, Robert Hooke, Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles II
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, England or English people, London, Fire, Biography, Architecture or architects, Engineering, Buildings
- Locales: France, England
Form and Content
In The Man Who Built a City: A Life of Sir Christopher Wren, Rosemary Weir has written a biography that is also a social history, an intellectual history, and a history of science. Part of the reason for this combination is her choice of subject, as Wren was a brilliant individual who was by turns an astronomer, an inventor, a scientist, and an architect. The rest of the reason for the combination is the age in which her subject happened to live: an age of political intrigue and the assassination of kings, of dictatorship and the restoration of monarchy,...
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