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You can play with the effects of different shaped lenses – spherical, parabolic, and hyperbolic – using Lenore Horner’s Geogebra simulation at https://www.geogebra.org/m/Ddbpxd5X If you’d like to read more about Wren’s life, two very good places to start are Lisa Jardine’s 2002 biography On a Grander Scale, and Adrian Tinniswood’s 2001 biography His Invention so Fertile. The three conics, by Pbroks13, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conic_sections_with_plane.svg How a watch keeps time is vital to how accurate its timekeeping is. Quartz movement watches are often prized for their accuracy, while a well-crafted automatic watch is a true investment piece. Prefer something vintage? Browse our collection of stunning manual watches. Ramsdens Watch Services This lecture is part of the seriesThe Victorians: Culture and Experience in Britain, Europe and the World 1815-1914Gevril GV2 Gent's Scuderia Ltd Edt Swiss Multifunction Chronograph Watch with Genuine Leather Strap The scale of the British Empire and the dominance of British industry ensured that in 1890 nearly two-thirds of the telegraph lines in the world were owned by British companies, which controlled 156,000 kilometers of cables. But the influence of the system extended far beyond the British Empire. The growth of the new global communication networks meant, as the writer Max Nordau noted in 1892, that the simplest villager now had a wider geographical horizon than a head of government a century before. If he read a paper he 'interests himself simultaneously in the issue of a revolution in Chile, a bush-war in East Africa, a massacre in North China, a famine in Russia'. Within major cities, tram systems, and suburban and underground railways began to speed up traffic, just as the main roads were becoming clogged with horse-drawn cabs and carriages, automobiles and omnibuses. In 1863 the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London, and was soon extended, but steam locomotives posed many problems, and the cut-and-cover method of construction soon ran out of roads that could be dug up, and London turned to boring deeper lines for 'tube' trains powered by electricity, the first of which was opened in 1890. Above ground, the electric tramway system devised by Werner von Siemens began running in Berlin in 1879, and soon spread to many other countries. John Wallis had shown in the 1650s how to “rectify” a logarithmic spiral, in other words how to find its length (or more properly the length of any part of it), by transforming, or “convoluting”, it into a straight line without changing the length. Wren managed to show that a version of this idea could work a dimension higher, and could be used in reverse to convolute or twist a cone into a kind of three-dimensional or solid logarithmic spiral. He suggested these spirals could be behind the growth of snail shells and seashells. And it’s since been found that this is absolutely right. Wren was educated at Oxford and later held the Savilian chair in astronomy there, as well as his Gresham professorship in London. These roles and others place him right at the heart of an exceptionally active and exciting community of scientific thinkers. The group around Gresham College included not just Wren as Gresham Professor of Astronomy but also Robert Hooke, who was Gresham Professor of Geometry at a similar time. Wren was not just a founder member of the Royal Society (which arose out of weekly meetings at Gresham beginning in November 1660) but served as its president. And he was an active contributor in meetings – if perhaps not in subscription fees, which he had to be chased to pay up. In short, he was a key contributor to the scientific and mathematical thought of the time. We can see this, not just from his own work, but by the amount he is mentioned in the writing of others, giving credit to him for certain ideas. For example, when Isaac Newton introduces the idea of a force governed by an inverse square law in his Principia Mathematica, he says that one example is the force governing the motion of the planets “as Sir Christopher Wren, Dr. Hooke, and Dr. Halley have severally observed”. Wren’s name appears seven times in the Principia. In fact, the leading architectural historian John Summerson (1904-1992) wrote that if Wren had died at thirty, he would still have been a “figure of some importance in English scientific thought, but without the word “architecture” occurring once in his biographies”. Wren’s contributions to astronomy are the subject of a lecture by the current Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Katherine Blundell, which you can watch online: today I want to explore his mathematical contributions.

Keen to recapture the initiative from the British, the French government organized an International Conference on Time in 1912, which established a generally accepted system of establishing the time and signaling it round the globe. The Eiffel Tower was already transmitting Paris time by radio signals, receiving calculations of astronomical time from the Paris Observatory. At 10 a.m. on 1 July 1913, it sent the first global time-signal, directed at eight different receiving stations dotted around the world. Thus, as one French commentator boasted, Paris, 'supplanted by Greenwich as the origin of the meridians, was proclaimed the initial time centre, the watch of the universe'. The coming of wireless telegraphy had indeed signaled the death-knell for the remaining local times.

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Spiral-like shapes crop up regularly in nature. There’s a particular kind of spiral, called a logarithmic spiral that was familiar to Wren. Logarithmic spirals were first mentioned by the German artist and engraver Albrecht Durer, and studied in great detail by the mathematician Jacob Bernoulli – he gave them the name “spira mirabilis”, or “miraculous spiral”. In a logarithmic spiral, the distance r from the centre is a power of the angle we’ve moved through (or conversely the angle is a logarithm of the distance, hence the name). This means that the gap between consecutive rings of the spiral is increasing each time. One example of a logarithmic spiral, shown below, is r= 2 θ/360(where we are measuring our angles in degrees). With every complete revolution, the distance of the spiral from the origin doubles. It crosses the x -axis at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on. Markhor Screw-horned Goat, by Rufus46, Boreray Ram, by Gibbja, Giant Eland by Greg Hume, all CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons You’ll find everything from classic models to modern styles, featuring materials such as gold, silver and diamond, so you’re sure to find the perfect men’s or ladies' designer watch. So, Wren and Hooke’s best guess for the ideal shape of a masonry dome is a cubic curve in cross-section. They took the part of the curve y= x 3 for positive x , and rotated it around a vertical axis to create what Hooke called a “cubico-parabolical conoid”. And it’s this shape that Wren used for the middle dome, which supports the hemispherical outer dome and its central lantern. By the way, if you stand inside the cathedral and look up, you think you can see through the dome to the lantern, but in fact what you are seeing is a painting of the lantern on the base of the middle dome! In summary, the dome of St Paul’s is in fact a triple dome: a catenary inside a cubic curve inside a hemisphere. Pretty amazing, and a tour de force of Wren’s mathematical and architectural skill.