This sat on my shelf for years but watching The Medici series on Netflix finally inspired me to read it. I am sure that King simplified the math and engineering, which is the book's focus, but still it mystifies me that with so few tools such magnificent architecture was possible. AND why now, with access to machinery even the genius Brunelleschi couldn't imagine, we build such sterile boxes (yeah I know energy, efficiency, inability to terrorize the masses to pay for things...). This is a great slice of Renaissance history that celebrates the best minds of the time and gives hope that intelligence is still a human quality.
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