Mastodawn

🔥🏗️ Medieval masons used simple #geometry and ropes to build soaring stone vaults centuries before Newton's laws existed. Check out the "#engineering method" of trial and error that kept these massive structures standing.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/how-medieval-cathedrals-were-built-without-science-or-even-mathematics.html

💁🏻‍♀️✨ How are medieval stained glass windows made? https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-are-medieval-stained-glass-windows-made

#history #architecture #middleages #physics #cathedrals #stem #learning #construction

How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics

Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public mind, but anyone who's spent much time in an academic department belonging to one or the other of those branches of endeavor knows how insistently distinctions can be drawn between them.

Open Culture

Beech Feb 27

Spring in the cathedral garden
Japanese quince
Magnolia
#Spring #Flowers #Cathedrals #BristolCathedral
Enjoying sunshine before for lunchtime eucharist

Beech Feb 17

Winner of new colston window for bristol cathedral announced
#BristolCathedral #Anglican #Cathedrals
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-cathedral-first-new-permanent-10820406

Bristol Cathedral to get its first new permanent artwork in years

'Let There Be Light' will be a 'response' to the cathedral's Colston memorial window

Bristol Live

David Feb 7

Westminster Cathedral. The premier Catholic cathedral in the country was built in a Greek/Byzantine revival style rather than traditional churchy Gothic to avoid challenging nearby Westminster Abbey.
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#westminstercathedral #Cathedral #cathedrals