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Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic AKA Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral by Philip Ball Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-06-115430-X / 006115430X ISBN-13: 978-0-06-115430-0 / 9780061154300 Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in t |