Wren, Christopher

Wren, Christopher (son of Sir Christopher Wren) Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens but Chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, 1750... 

The idea of red cell substitutes is not new. In Ovid s Metamorphosis the witch Medea restored Jason s aged father, Aeson, by slitting his throat to let out old blood, replacing it with a magic brew she had concocted (1). Sir Christopher Wren was one of the first to apply the new knowledge about circulation to blood substitutes. In 1656 he infused ale, wine, scammony, and opium into dogs and from these efforts conceived the ideal of transfusing blood from one animal to another. Lower actually carried out the first transfusion experiments (2). 

Christopher S. Wren, "Fewer Youths Report Smoking Marijuana," The New York Times, August 7, 1997. 

Christopher Wren, New York Herald Tribune, January 16,1948. 

Boyle and Christopher Wren. Their so-called Invisible College became the Royal Society in 1660, and the seal of Royal patronage meant that from now on, the prominence of alchemy would gradually diminish as research become ever more based in the empiricism championed by Francis Bacon and Descartes. 

The first recorded attempt to inject medication intentionally was in 1665 by Sir Christopher Wren, then Professor of Astronomy at Oxford and later to become a famous architect. Wren worked on animals, but later attempts by a Johann Taylor were with humans. Unfortunately the crude nature of the apparatus, the absence of pure drugs and ignorance caused the practice to fall into disrepute. 

Sir Christopher Wren, the renowned architect of St Paul s Cathedral in London, attributed the majesty of Gothic architecture to Knights Templar and other Crusaders in bringing back Muslim ideas on science and architecture from the Near East ... 

Sir Christopher Wren was a founding member of the Royal Society and frequented the Invisible College. There are scant records of Freemasonry at this time but Anderson s New Book of Constitutions of 1738 notes Wren, the Master of the London Operative Masons Company was a Grand Master of Freemasonry in 1685." Similarly, John Aubrey, an antiquary and fellow of the Royal Society, recorded that an order initiated Wren in 1691 at St Paul s Cathedral." ... 

It is most likely that Sir Christopher Wren referred to the Magistri Comacini when he remarked ... 

Sir Christopher Wren proved a heavy influence on the long curving terraces of snow-white stone town houses, while Oriental and Eastern designs appeared to be favoured among the smaller individual residences. 

This final thrust, which centred around Isaac Newton, turned into an unseemly squabble with his contemporaries Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703), Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742), Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716), Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 95), Robert Boyle (1627 91), Christopher Wren (1632... 

This book, with Professor Hay s earlier Bio-inorganic Chemistry, form a fitting memorial to the author. To paraphrase Sir Christopher Wren s epitaph Si monumentum requiris, inspice (If you seek a monument look within). 

Sir Christopher Wren was trained as an astronomer and dabbled in medicine before recognizing that his future lay in architecture. One is left to ponder what a mind that conceived of St. Paul s Cathedral might have achieved if directed to medical science He is buried under a simple unadorned black marble slab in the cathedral that he had spent 35 years building, and the plaque reads Lectory si monumentum requiris, circumspice ( Reader, if you seek a monument, look around ). 

An eighteenth-century depiction of intravenous technique explored the concept of transfusion. The pioneer of the technique, Robert Lower (top right), was an original thinker whose association with Thomas Boyle and Christopher Wren at Oxford University formed a triumvirate of the greatest scientific thinkers of the generation. 

Tinniswood, His Invention So Fertile A Life of Sir Christopher Wren, 2002. A prosaic background is credited with aiiowing Wren to fioat through the upheavais of his time. His character may have heiped too. 

Jardine, L. (2002) On a Grander Scale The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren. London Harper Collins. 

Tinniswood, A. (2002) His Invention So Fertile A Life of Christopher Wren. London Pimlico. 

Naval College building was the former Greenwich Hospital, built between 1696 and 1712 by Christopher Wren, where the reactor was located within the King William Building. It was operational at the site from 1962 to 1996 and used for training potential nuclear submarine captains. 

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