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03023aam a2200469 i 4500 001 8F10DC9EF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 230622t20242024nyuace b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1639365869 020 $a 9781639365869 035 $a (OCoLC)1384412373 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d GZD $d JAS $d SILO 043 $a e-it--- 100 1 $a Kalayjian, Wayne, $e author. 245 10 $a Saving Michelangelo's Dome : $b How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution / $c Wayne Kalayjian. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), portraits, plans ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index. 505 0 $a Timeline of events: Circus of Caligula to the Hoover Dam -- Timeline of events: 1400 to 1750 -- The Pope's problem -- Building the Basilica -- Master builders and their methods -- The able assistant -- Mattematica and Scienza -- The opinions -- Critics at every corner -- Professor Poleni -- A magician's touch -- The memoirs -- The advent of modern engineering. 520 $a "In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica--designed by Michelangelo--cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture" -- $c Publisher's description. 520 $a "In Saving Michelangelo's Dome, Stanford-trained engineer Wayne Kalayjian illustrates how new ideas in science and mathematics established an entirely new way of looking at the world--as well as solving its complex problems. In the end, readers will appreciate that in saving Michelangelo's Dome from collapse, these three mathematicians and one determined pope unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. With it, they transformed the architectural world and ushered in generations of future buildings and structures that, otherwise, would never have been built" -- $c Publisher's description. 600 00 $a Michelangelo Buonarroti, $d 1475-1564. 600 00 $a Benedict $b XIV, $c Pope, $d 1675-1758. 600 10 $a Poleni, Giovanni, $d 1683-1761. 600 10 $a Vanvitelli, Luigi, $d 1700-1773. 600 10 $a Salvi, Nicola. 600 10 $a Fuga, Ferdinando, $d 1699-1782. 610 20 $a Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. 650 0 $a Domes $z Vatican City $x Design and construction. 650 0 $a Structural engineering $x History. 650 0 $a Church architecture $z Vatican City. 650 0 $a Architects $z Italy. 650 0 $a Mathematicians $z Italy. 651 0 $a Vatican City $x Buildings, structures, etc. 941 $a 4 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524011536.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045506.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240403015625.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012031.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F10DC9EF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search