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Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 12, Stone Masonry: Beauvais Cathedral [eFilm]

2024
On November 29, 1284, much of the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre at Beauvais collapsed without warning. Had this Gothic church simply exceeded the inherent maximum height of a stone structural system, as some historians have suggested? Watch fascinating demonstrations that both explain the function of...
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