Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Puritan-founded college on a former Dominican friary site, with a Wren chapel and a fish pond.
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This guide to Emmanuel College in Cambridge follows John Wallis, who arrived as a student in the sixteen thirties when the college was a young Puritan foundation on the site of a Dominican friary. It touches on what he studied when no one could teach him mathematics, a bold public argument about the human body, and a cipher letter handed to him at supper during the Civil War. Best heard within sight of the old dining hall.
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