Brunelleschi's dome : how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture /

Tells the story of how fifteenth-century goldsmith and clock maker Filippo Brunelleschi devised the plan to build the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, an engineering feat that had puzzled architects for over a century.

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Main Author: King, Ross, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2001.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (page 177) and index. 
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