Watch PBS Nova’s Great Cathedral Mystery and answer the following questions. Please type your answers. You can turn this is for extra credit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCZeN6d1cA
1.How tall and wide is Florence Cathedral’s dome?
2.What aspects of Gothic architecture did the committee want to eliminate from the Florence Cathedral?
3.Describe the machine Brunelleschi invented for lifting construction material.
4.Why did Brunelleschi’s brickwork pattern work?
5.How might Brunelleschi have convinced his builders to trust him?
6.What is the real shape of the dome if it is not an octagon?
7.How did Brunelleschi make the walls dip downward?
8.How did Ricci learn how to place the ropes?
9.How did Brunelleschi know he was on the right track?
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