"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index.
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.
ISBN
9781639365869 (hardcover)
1639365869 (hardcover)
OCLC
1384412373
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