National Geographic History - USA (2022-05 & 2022-06)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1

FROM THE EDITOR

Amy Briggs, Executive Editor

Mad scientists are fun fictional characters—visionaries who

hole up alone (sometimes in a garage? or maybe a remote castle?) to drive

human progress. It’s a romantic notion, but one that doesn’t really hold up

in real life. History’s innovators would be nowhere without their rivals.

Rivalries are behind some of the world’s biggest achievements. In the 19th

century Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla fought the current wars. Two

hundred years earlier, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz battled

over calculus. And two centuries before that, there was Filippo Brunelleschi

and Lorenzo Ghiberti, two men whose rivalry was part of the cauldron of

competition known as the Renaissance.

The two competed in 1418 to design the dome atop Florence’s Duomo,

but their first encounter took place nearly two decades earlier in a

contest to create a set of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery (which

sits across from the Duomo). Ghiberti came out on top the first time,

and Brunelleschi won the rematch. Their rivalry set the tone for an era

that produced some of the world’s greatest artworks, architecture, and

competitions the world has ever seen.

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