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Invention Of The Gothic Cathedral

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What was a major innovation of the Gothic cathedral? How did the architecture of the cathedral reflect the prevailing idea of God: One of the biggest innovations in the field of cathedral building was the flying buttress. The problem was that the only building material then was stone and wood, but wood caught fire to easily, it got old, and within a hundred years it would probably fall apart. So Cathedrals were built with stone and had huge vaulted ceilings, but another problem was that stone was very heavy, without the flying buttress there would be these huge columns of stone and it was frankly ugly! So architects all over began to work on the problem and soon enough the flying buttress was created. The flying buttress works by conveying
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