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Season
- NOVA Season 0 1999-07-13
- NOVA Season 1 1974-03-03
- NOVA Season 2 1974-11-03
- NOVA Season 3 1976-01-04
- NOVA Season 4 1977-01-05
- NOVA Season 5 1978-01-04
- NOVA Season 6 1979-01-04
- NOVA Season 7 1980-01-15
- NOVA Season 8 1981-01-06
- NOVA Season 9 1982-01-10
- NOVA Season 10 1983-01-18
- NOVA Season 11 1984-01-17
- NOVA Season 12 1985-01-15
- NOVA Season 13 1986-01-21
- NOVA Season 14 1987-01-20
- NOVA Season 15 1988-01-19
- NOVA Season 16 1989-01-17
- NOVA Season 17 1990-01-09
- NOVA Season 18 1991-01-08
- NOVA Season 19 1992-01-14
- NOVA Season 20 1993-01-05
- NOVA Season 21 1994-01-18
- NOVA Season 22 1995-01-08
- NOVA Season 23 1995-10-10
- NOVA Season 24 1996-10-01
- NOVA Season 25 1997-10-07
- NOVA Season 26 1998-10-06
- NOVA Season 27 1999-10-05
- NOVA Season 28 2000-10-24
- NOVA Season 29 2001-10-02
- NOVA Season 30 2002-09-03
- NOVA Season 31 2003-09-30
- NOVA Season 32 2004-09-28
- NOVA Season 33 2005-09-20
- NOVA Season 34 2006-09-05
- NOVA Season 35 2007-10-09
- NOVA Season 36 2008-10-07
- NOVA Season 37 2009-10-06
- NOVA Season 38 2010-10-19
- NOVA Season 39 2011-09-07
- NOVA Season 40 2012-10-10
- NOVA Season 41 2013-09-11
- NOVA Season 42 2014-09-10
- NOVA Season 43 2015-09-16
- NOVA Season 44 2016-09-07
- NOVA Season 45 2018-01-10
- NOVA Season 46 2019-01-02
- NOVA Season 47 2020-02-05
- NOVA Season 48 2021-01-13
- NOVA Season 49 2022-02-01
- NOVA Season 50 2023-02-01
- NOVA Season 51 2024-01-31
Episode
- Episode 1 : Ground Zero Supertower
- Episode 2 : Megastorm Aftermath
- Episode 3 : Making Stuff Faster
- Episode 4 : Making Stuff Wilder
- Episode 5 : Making Stuff Colder
- Episode 6 : Making Stuff Safer
- Episode 7 : Cold Case JFK
- Episode 8 : At the Edge of Space
- Episode 9 : Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?
- Episode 10 : Alien Planets Revealed
- Episode 11 : Zeppelin Terror Attack
- Episode 12 : Killer Typhoon
- Episode 13 : Ghosts of Murdered Kings
- Episode 14 : Roman Catacomb Mystery
- Episode 15 : Great Cathedral Mystery
- Episode 16 : Wild Predator Invasion
- Episode 17 : Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius
- Episode 18 : Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses
- Episode 19 : Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest?
- Episode 20 : Why Sharks Attack
- Episode 21 : Escape From Nazi Alcatraz
- Episode 22 : D-Day's Sunken Secrets
NOVA - Season 41 Episode 15
The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an enduring source of mystery. Still the largest masonry dome on earth after more than six centuries, it is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs as much as an average cruise ship. Historians and engineers have long debated how its secretive architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, managed to keep the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center, 40 stories above the cathedral floor. His laborers toiled without safety nets, applying novel, untried methods. Over 4 million bricks might collapse at any moment—and we still don’t understand how Brunelleschi prevented it. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. master bricklayers will help build a unique experimental model Duomo using period techniques. Will it stay intact during the final precarious stages of closing over the top of the dome?
Genre: Documentary
First Air Date: Mar 03, 1974
Last Air date: Apr 03, 2024
Season: 51 Season
Episode: 980 Episode
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Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Keyword: nature
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