I chose to look into the area of architecture and Brunelleschi’s design of the dome for Florence’s cathedral. The creation of the dome was started because the structure of the building required more of a dome shape than the buttresses and pointed arches that surrounded areas used. However, a domed roof of that large of a scale had never been attempted before, so there were many questions: could a dome that weighs tens of thousands of tons stay up without the traditional structures? Was there enough timber in Tuscany to create scaffolding and templates needed to shape the dome? Could a dome be built on the octagonal floor plan already in existence without collapsing inward as it arced toward the apex? Brunelleschi created a dome that didn’t