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you've been challenged to build a great dome
for the Santa Maria dei Fiori one of the grandest cathedrals
every being and you have no formal architecture training
no pressure rank forty he problem in Ft
goodson clockmaker it was the opportunity of a lifetime
he conceded the challenge came
then propose the daring plan
using methods that exposed don't fully understand even to this day
well acting I'm
dooms or built and them I said
that the town planners required that brown ft building
eighth I did dome that would be even taller and stronger
it would also have no central support system
to hold it up during construction even worse
the doomsday with an imprecise Octagon with no truth in 10
back-burner Leschi had that covered and
they would be to dawn instead one inner
and in outer shell held together by giant brick
arches and interlocking rings stone and wood
in the Rings would work like hope some battle
keeping the dawn from expanding outward the mood
to move heavy loads hundreds of feet up Luna left field and
ingenious mission including an ox driven at least
and massive lifting bag Park I'm
song revolutionary design check
groundbreaking engineering check can do attitude
check in but with no central support system how would he actually build it
for stuff the masonry will have to support itself during construction
to do this burn a lefty the peak in
herringbone pattern which spiral to the top of the dome
with very complex Akkineni bookends to hold the other think like
they lied about one real leak giving the modern time to cure
at this rate they don't grew at a snail's pace them about the food a month
but perhaps most puzzling is how he was able to place to be true
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many experts agree that he used guide ruled
1p restate that drops ran from a flower pattern
on the work platform that showed exactly where the bricks should go
another as rocks running from the dome Center tracing a series of Qom
that grew smaller as they send it to the top I'll
still another suggest a different arrangement the central ropes
and wooden template of
however it was done it worked eat faces at the Dome it at the top
precisely just did when I left get planted
in only took sixteen years to complete the dome
I'll when he died
in parking party thinks lefty left behind no sketches
and known details as to exactly how he achieved his masterpiece today
it remains the largest masonry dome in the way round
more than five hundred years after it was being
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