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Flippo Brunelleschi Research Paper

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Florence began to build a cathedral in 1296, in 1418 (122 years later) they confront a big problem: the enormous hole in the center of the building. The challenges they faced were the lack of knowledge and technology, they have to cover an area 150 feet across, and it would have to start 180 feet above the ground, atop the existing walls. The Florentine Fathers convened a competition for the design of the dome. One of the designers, who was not a designer or architect at all, was a goldsmith named Filippo Brunelleschi who applied “his theoretical and mechanical knowledge to observation of the natural world…”1 Proposed a peculiar design: no one dome, but two domes one nested inside the other. “He’d just spent several years in

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