I have a question. I remember watching a show about the Roman Empire, and in discussing its decline, it referred to an historian or innovator that during the Century of Crisis, dispatched a letter to the Roman emperor, imploring him to fund technological research and offered some plans on useful inventions.

Anyone know who that was? Or what those plans contained?




La Repubblica Ragusana - La quinta repubblica marittrima!
Italia triumphs again!
"When valour takes the field, short will the conflict be; Barbarian rage shall yield the palm to Italy. The vital spark remains, and Roman blood still warms Italians' veins."
- Petrarch

that hapened yet for Vespasianus

then in the fourth book of Rei Militari by Vegetius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Re_Militari

sorry this is all that I can tell


Caterina Balivo (Naples, 1980) & Flavia Vento (Rome, 1977)

I think that's it.

Thanks!




La Repubblica Ragusana - La quinta repubblica marittrima!
Italia triumphs again!
"When valour takes the field, short will the conflict be; Barbarian rage shall yield the palm to Italy. The vital spark remains, and Roman blood still warms Italians' veins."
- Petrarch

I think another possibility is De Rebus Bellicis, which I think is actually it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Rebus_Bellicis

Part of its contents include plans for a first paddle-wheel boat, which is phenomenal.




La Repubblica Ragusana - La quinta repubblica marittrima!
Italia triumphs again!
"When valour takes the field, short will the conflict be; Barbarian rage shall yield the palm to Italy. The vital spark remains, and Roman blood still warms Italians' veins."
- Petrarch