2.01.2008

Solving the Dome Challenge



Through his tireless research Brunelleschi had unlocked the mystery of the Florence Cathedral, he believed it was necessary to "employ the ogive (a diagonal rib of a Gothic vault, a pointed curved surface) shape, and to make two vaults, an outer and an inner...the structure must be bound together at the angles of the eight sides by dovetailing the stones.

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