Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 12, Stone Masonry: Beauvais Cathedral
(2024, original release: 2022)
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
15065566
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames
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 the medieval flying buttress and point to the design flaws that most likely caused the collapse
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Stephen Ressler
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022
Mode of access: World Wide Web