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Notre-Dame, a vessel of stone and iron

Notre-Dame, a vessel of stone and iron

03.16.2022

Notre-Dame Cathedral is the setting for a large-scale scientific study aimed at penetrating the building’s secrets and helping with its restoration. This film shows how researchers extract information from stone and iron in order to understand how mediaeval builders managed to erect a monument so much taller than its contemporaries.

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2022

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