re: #243 Decatur Deb

Surprisingly few cathedrals toppled, because they were about 5X overbuilt. The true faith-based engineering was Florence’s Santa Maria di Fiore. They defined the footprint about 200 years before anyone had any idea of how to dome it. Fantastic book on that:

amazon.com

I think that was mentioned in the Netflix series Medici: Masters of Florence

(the Santa Maria that is)