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The Dome at Completion
in 1590
The inner shell of
Michelangelo's Dome

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This engaging and colorful tale tells how Michelangelo’s dome was saved from disaster by three mathematicians and Pope Benedict XIV, who had asked them for help. It is a gripping story of decisive leadership, crisis management, and scientific innovation, and the resistance that was faced when sailing into the headwinds of conventional thought.

“Saving Michelangelo’s Dome” demonstrates how new ideas in science and mathematics established an entirely new way of looking at the world—as well as solving its most complicated problems. In the end, readers will appreciate that in saving Michelangelo’s dome from collapse, these four determined pioneers unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. Their innovations transformed the world of architecture and ushered the construction of buildings and bridges in the generations ahead that, otherwise, could never have been built.

The Dome at Completion
in 1590

About the Book

This engaging and colorful tale tells how Michelangelo’s dome was saved from disaster by three mathematicians and Pope Benedict XIV, who had asked them for help. It is a gripping story of decisive leadership, crisis management, and scientific innovation, and the resistance that was faced when sailing into the headwinds of conventional thought.

“Saving Michelangelo’s Dome” demonstrates how new ideas in science and mathematics established an entirely new way of looking at the world—as well as solving its most complicated problems. In the end, readers will appreciate that in saving Michelangelo’s dome from collapse, these four determined pioneers unknowingly invented the profession of engineering as we practice it today. Their innovations transformed the world of architecture and ushered the construction of buildings and bridges in the generations ahead that, otherwise, could never have been built.

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    About the Book

    This engaging and colorful tale tells how Michelangelo’s dome was saved from disaster by three mathematicians and Pope Benedict XIV, who had asked them for help.

    It is a gripping story of decisive leadership, crisis management, and scientific innovation, and the resistance that was faced when sailing into the headwinds of conventional thought.

    Saving Michelangelo's Dome

    How Three Mathematicians and a Pope
    Sparked an Architectural Revolution

    Publisher : Pegasus Books
    Publication Date : March 5, 2024

    Reviews

    “Wayne Kalayjian turns a little-known story of architecture, mathematics and engineering into an engaging and suspenseful tale of scientific pioneers working on the boundaries of knowledge. Told with clarity and insight, the story features a compelling cast of popes, architects, mathematicians, and even blacksmiths and plumbers—all working to save one of the world’s greatest buildings.”

    -Ross King
    Best-selling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome
    and Leonardo and the Last Supper

    “Ever-enlarging cracks in the dome of St. Peter’s threaten its collapse. This is the compelling tale of those who confronted the danger and the fascinating story of the brilliant mathematicians who rescued it. In the best sense, this is history told as story, as important today as when those dangerous cracks first appeared in the sixteenth century.”

    -William E. Wallace
    Author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect

    “A diverting look at how the challenges of dome-building laid the groundwork for the emergence of engineering as a scientific discipline.”

    -Sarah Hart
    Author of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and Literature

    “Telling the story of how Enlightenment-thinking solved a Renaissance problem, Wayne Kalayjian illuminates the beginning of modern engineering in clear, readable prose—and reminds us that progress requires open-minded commitment from those in power.”

    -Paul Robert Walker
    Author of The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

    “An intriguing look at how an iconic structure came to be, and the challenges that arose in the years that followed. Kalayjian weaves an intricate story at the intersection of engineering, mathematics, politics, and religion.”

    -Roma Agrawal
    Structural engineer and author of Nuts and Bolts and Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures