Before he built St Paul’s, Christopher Wren was Savilian Professor of Astronomy and one of the ablest geometers in Europe — Newton named him among the three foremost of the age. Lawrence Weaver’s Sir Christopher Wren keeps the whole man in view: the scientific prodigy, the founder of the Royal Society, and the architect who rebuilt London’s churches after the Fire.
Weaver, an architectural historian, is excellent on how the geometry fed the architecture — domes as mathematics made visible. Download the free EPUB for the fullest short account of England’s scientist-architect.