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Saving Michelangelo's dome : how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution /

In Saving Michelangelo's Dome, Stanford-trained engineer Wayne Kalayjian illustrates how new ideas in science and mathematics established an entirely new way of looking at the world, as well as solving its complex problems. In the end, readers will appreciate that in saving Michelangelo's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalayjian, Wayne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, [2024].
Subjects:
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, > 1475-1564.
Benedict > XIV, > Pope, > 1675-1758.
Poleni, Giovanni, > 1683-1761.
Vanvitelli, Luigi, > 1700-1773.
Salvi, Nicola.
Fuga, Ferdinando, > 1699-1782.
Domes > Vatican City > Design and construction.
Structural engineering > History.
Church architecture > Vatican City.
Vatican City > Buildings, structures, etc.
Architects > Italy.
Mathematicians > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • Timeline of events: Circus of Caligula to the Hoover Dam
  • Timeline of events: 1400 to 1750
  • The Pope's problem
  • Building the Basilica
  • Master builders and their methods
  • The able assistant
  • Mattematica and Scienza
  • The opinions
  • Critics at every corner
  • Professor Poleni
  • A magician's touch
  • The memoirs
  • The advent of modern engineering.