Download or read book His Invention So Fertile written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It also shows us the man behind the legend. Wren was married and widowed twice, he fathered a mentally handicapped child, quarrelled with his colleagues and fell foul of his employers. He scrambled over building sites and went to the theatre and drank in coffee-houses. The book explores what it was like to be at Oxford during the Commonwealth, as a generation struggled to make sense of a society in chaos; it recreates the tensions which tore apart the court of James II; it brings to life the petty jealousies that formed an integral part of both the building world and the scientific milieu of the Royal Society."--BOOK JACKET.