Did the Roman empire have engineering schools?

>>2513053
What the fuck do you think? They built stuff by chance, completely fluked it. Everytime

I've been wanting to make a thread about this. Why do we have so many works of philosophy and practically no textbooks about engineering and science from antiquity? Was it considered state secret?

>>2513053
All their engineers were poo in the loos and Changs and assorted Slavs.

Quadrivium would be the Roma/medieval version of modern STEM.
Vitruvius was by any means a standard technical manual all the way into late middle ages.

>>2513547

It's more that the people who preserved those works of philosophy tended to be mons and priests, who had no interest or understanding of technical manuals. Bear in mind, in Europe's climate, a book will only physically last a certain amount of time (a few centuries, say) and so must be recopied many times for it to have survived into the modern day.

>>2513547
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontinus

etc.

>>2513548
No, Ho Chee Ming wouldn't have been tolerated in the Roman Empire.

Death to chinks. Death to Asian American males.

>>2513654
>doctores ballistarum
I love it.
Military engineering is the true and original engineering.

>>2513602
Anything earlier than Vitruvius?

>>2513547

>Why do we have so many works of philosophy and practically no textbooks about engineering and science from antiquity? Was it considered state secret?

those were taught by tutors, instructors and apprenticeship. Philosophy is much more strict in the concepts it presents so you can't pass it down by usage.

>>2515279
>>2513547

This. They also had no science of engineering as we know it. Any calculations were just for costs and amounts of materials. They didn't even record designs or draw detailed diagrams. All of that came in the medieval era.

Interestingly, because they didn't have the tools to do the math, they designed with effective margins of safety (how many times more stress your design can handle than it actually needs to handle) roughly in the hundreds, whereas modern engineering uses a factor typically of 2-3.

>>2513053
Yes. They imported countless Parthians and Scythians to engineer their aqueducts, and inscribe their marble.