02400cam a2200337 i 4500 1165580635 TxAuBib 20240306120000.0 240228s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024005083 9781639365869 29.95 1639365869 29.95 TxAuBib rda Kalayjian, Wayne,. Saving Michelangelo's dome : how three mathematicians and a pope sparked an architectural revolution / Wayne Kalayjian. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2024. 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliograpical references (pages 225-235) and index. "1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the pride of Italy and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. And no one knows how to fix it. This engaging and colorful narrative tells the overlooked story of 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20240306. Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564. Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758. Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. Architecture, Modern 18th century. Buildings Vatican City. Vatican City. BTCLS