Christopher Wren [antikvár]

One A MIRACLE OF A YOUTH In the summer of 1654, the famous diarist John Evelyn spent a few weeks at his old university, Oxford. At the end of his entry for 11 July he wrote, 'after dinner I visited that miracle of a youth Mr. Christopher Wren'.' At the age of only twenty-one, Christopher Wren was already a fellow of All Souls College, but his reputation for scholarship and invention reached far beyond the university. If his contemporaries had been told that he would soon be a professor of astronomy and a founder of one of the world's great scientific societies, not one of them would have been surprised. But few if any would have believed it if they had been told that he was destined to be remembered as England's greatest architect. So far, the only evidence of the talent that would one day eclipse all others was the high quality of his technical drawings.