16-05-2026, 01:09 PM
Very interesting, I had not read about Vegetius' situation before.
Now it's important to keep in mind what we're actually after. For me personally, the best matches are in Taccola's hydraulics and civil engineering: how do I lead water across this chasm? Of course, there is overlap with military engineering (armies also need water), but I don't see much of the VM in the actual siege equipment. Q13 sans ladies is mostly about interconnected bodies of water and water flowing through series of pipes.
And then there is the matter of the use of patterns and the "Tuscan Sun", as we may call it until we understand its origins better.
So I wonder if hydraulics, civil engineering and military engineering often went hand in hand and you just get the whole package of inventor types presenting their broadly applicable ingenuity. Or if perhaps there are specific precedents in hydraulics and the management of bodies of water.
Now it's important to keep in mind what we're actually after. For me personally, the best matches are in Taccola's hydraulics and civil engineering: how do I lead water across this chasm? Of course, there is overlap with military engineering (armies also need water), but I don't see much of the VM in the actual siege equipment. Q13 sans ladies is mostly about interconnected bodies of water and water flowing through series of pipes.
And then there is the matter of the use of patterns and the "Tuscan Sun", as we may call it until we understand its origins better.
So I wonder if hydraulics, civil engineering and military engineering often went hand in hand and you just get the whole package of inventor types presenting their broadly applicable ingenuity. Or if perhaps there are specific precedents in hydraulics and the management of bodies of water.