Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 12, Stone Masonry: Beauvais Cathedral
2024
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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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The Great Courses, 2022.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022.
Performers:
Stephen Ressler
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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English
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482217
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Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/14065567/external-image - Cover Image