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How Does Filippo Brunelleschi Build The Dome?

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The octagonal dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was built from Filippo Brunelleschi, of early Renaissance entirely as a self-supporting structure . This precision structure would be difficult to re-create today, even with modern and specialized tools, so it is one of the most studied historic structures. Massimo Ricci, Barry Jones and Andrea Sereni had a question: How Filippo Brunelleschi built the Dome? They proposed a theory that the dome was built as a series of horizontal conical sections, becoming ever steeper as the dome rises. To demonstrate this theory from 1989 to 2007 they were engaged to build a Model of Brunelleschi’s dome (one-fifth scale model) only with methods available to Brunelleschi. The intention was to demonstrate
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