How An Amateur Built The World's Biggest Dome
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In 1418, Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training.
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Yet experts still don't fully understand the brilliant methods he used in constructing the dome, which tops the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, Italy. You may also like to see the PBS NOVA documentary "The Great Cathedral Mystery" (52 min) of an Italian professor and a group of students and construction workers trying to restore the constitution of the dome (below):
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