Saving Michelangelo's dome, how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution, Wayne Kalayjian
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Saving Michelangelo's dome, how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution, Wayne Kalayjian
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index
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contains biographical information
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Saving Michelangelo's dome
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bibliography
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1384412373
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Wayne Kalayjian
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how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution
Summary
"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 Dome from collapse, these three mathematicians and one determined pope unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. With it, they transformed the architectural world and ushered in generations of future buildings and structures that, otherwise, would never have been built"--Publisher's description
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
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- XIV, Benedict, Pope, 1675-1758
- Structural engineering + History
- Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
- Fuga, Ferdinando, 1699-1782
- Domes -- Vatican City -- Design and construction
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
- Mathematicians -- Italy
- Architects -- Italy
- Vatican City -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Church architecture -- Vatican City
- Vanvitelli, Luigi, 1700-1773
- Poleni, Giovanni, 1683-1761
- Salvi, Nicola
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- XIV, Benedict, Pope, 1675-1758
- Structural engineering + History
- Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
- Fuga, Ferdinando, 1699-1782
- Domes -- Vatican City -- Design and construction
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
- Mathematicians -- Italy
- Architects -- Italy
- Vatican City -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Church architecture -- Vatican City
- Vanvitelli, Luigi, 1700-1773
- Poleni, Giovanni, 1683-1761
- Salvi, Nicola
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