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Copyright and Credits

Copyright 2021 by Armando Fox and David Patterson.

You are free to make digital or printed copies of this material for your own personal use.

You may not redistribute this material in either digital or printed form, whether or not for financial gain, without the express permission of the copyright holders.

Book version: 2.0b8

The cover background is a photo of the Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain. We chose it as an example of a beautiful, long-lasting design. The full aqueduct is about 20 miles (32 km) long and was built by the Romans in the 1st or 2nd century CE. This photo is of the half-mile long, 92 foot high segment (0.8 km long, 28 m high) built using unmortared granite blocks. The Roman designers followed the architectural principles in the ten-volume series De Architectura (“On Architecture”), written in 15 BCE by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. It was untouched until the 1500s CE, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella performed the first reconstruction of these arches. The aqueduct was in use and delivering water until recently.

Cover photo derived from an original photo by Bernard Gagnon, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct#/media/File:Aqueduct_of_Segovia_02.jpg

Both the print book and ebook were prepared with LaTeX and a series of Ruby packages, all freely available at http://github.com/armandofox/latex2ebook.

Arthur Klepchukov designed the covers and graphics for all versions.