Brunelleschi In The Roof Of Florence's Cathedral
The motivation that led to the discovery was in 1418 the hole in the roof of Florence’s cathedral left the church open to the elements and the people in charge thought it was time to fix the problem.
According to Tom Mueller the questions the fathers of Florence asked were, “Could a dome weighing tens of thousands of tons stay up without them? Was there enough timber in Tuscany for the scaffolding and templates that would be needed to shape the dome's masonry? And could a dome be built at all on the octagonal floor plan dictated by the existing walls -- eight pie-shaped wedges -- without collapsing inward as the masonry arced toward the apex?”
The significance of the discovery of his out of the box thinking is that Brunelleschi was
According to Tom Mueller the questions the fathers of Florence asked were, “Could a dome weighing tens of thousands of tons stay up without them? Was there enough timber in Tuscany for the scaffolding and templates that would be needed to shape the dome's masonry? And could a dome be built at all on the octagonal floor plan dictated by the existing walls -- eight pie-shaped wedges -- without collapsing inward as the masonry arced toward the apex?”
The significance of the discovery of his out of the box thinking is that Brunelleschi was