Chapter II: Preface: v

AUTHORITIES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii

I. PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD 1

II. OXFORD CAREER AND EARLY INVENTIONS 9

III. FAMILY LIFE 18

IV. ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND NATURAL SCIENTIST 28

V. BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE AND VISIT TO PARIS 43

VI. TOWN-PLANNING 53

VII. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL 59

VIII. THE CITY CHURCHES 78

IX. CHELSEA, HAMPTON COURT, AND GREENWICH 97

X. OTHER BUILDINGS: PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC 104

XI. WREN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: LAST YEARS 112

XII. THE PROFESSIONAL MAN 123

XIII. STUDENT AND SCHOLAR 132

XIV. “THE ARCHITECT OF ADVENTURE” 144

APPENDIX I.: A NOTE IN AMPLIFICATION OF THE
REFERENCE IN CHAPTER IV. TO PASCAL’S
PROBLEM 158

APPENDIX II.: AN ATTEMPT AT A WREN CHRONOLOGY 160