brunelleschi

So you do agree that Brunelleschi lead with his brilliant design and Buffett does dramatically outperform his peers.

I had an undergrad drawing class that started with Brunelleschi and framing tool he used to frame the Palazzo Vecchio.

There is another comment regarding a theory that Brunelleschi was influence by the book of optics and I can see an influence.

I can see Brunelleschi reading that while studying the Plazzo Vecchio and developing perspective.

As a side remark, it is probable [0] that Brunelleschi built his understanding of perspective from the Books of optics [1], written by Ibn al-Haytham around 1020 AD.

> The technique to construct an unreinforced concrete dome was lost in Italy until the diligent research of Filippo Brunelleschi So...

Alberti determined to become an engineer like Brunelleschi and observes that the word engineer derives from the Latin ingenium, or brilliance of intellect, as well as ingenia, the weapons or devices that an engineer created..

Or seeing Roman concrete in the Pantheon and then climbing the Duomo in Florence and seeing Brunelleschi overcoming a thousand years of ignorance and figuring out how to build a dome again -- and then climbing other domes and seeing Brunelleschi's idea repeated over and over again for centuries.

Can we agree that any definition of "engineer" that excludes Filippo Brunelleschi or Leonardo da Vinci (as yours does) is worthless?

In the telling, the architect, Filippo Brunelleschi was hired to solve the "how to build the dome" left by his predecessor, Arnolfo di Cambio in around 1300.

You see the same thing with Brunelleschi, who looked at Roman ruins and said, "Cool, now let's use this to invent perspective and change how we visualize space forever." Even Machiavelli, when interacting with the works of Livy and Tacitus, wasn't trying to restore a Roman republic, he was trying to figure out how power really works in the modern state.

Brunelleschi didn't personally lay all the bricks for his famous dome in Florence --- is it not architecture?

The technique to construct an unreinforced concrete dome was lost in Italy until the diligent research of Filippo Brunelleschi.

Brunelleschi, and his best friend Donatello, were no different, having visit Rome sometime in the early 1400s to study.