The Boston Globe, November 21st, 1988
David Macaulay, the immensely talented illustrator from Rhode Island, madehimself famous explaining technologies of the past. His first book, "Cathedral," told the story of the building of a medieval Gothic church. The book was written for children, but thousands of adult readers were instructed in tricks of long- forgotten trades, and shown that the soaring cathedral vaults that seem to defy gravity are works of engineering, not magic. Subsequent books (again intended for children) explained the architecture and engineering of an Egyptian pyramid, a Roman town, a medieval castle, an Industria...
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