Q the Pantheon, the Eye of Rome

Architecture of the Roman dome

The height of the building is almost equal to its diameter and amounts to 42 meters (137,8 ft). Air and light penetrate inside the Pantheon through the oculus in the center of the dome with a diameter of 9 meters (29,5 ft), called “the Eye of the Pantheon”, the main feature of the temple.

From within this room, it turns out that a person standing at the threshold of any of the doorways of the Octagonal Room can see above the rim of the oculus in the dome only that part of the sky with an altitude of about 42˚ and above.

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