The Cathedral Prayer Book

A Hospital Prayer Book

Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg

The miniatures of the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg incorporate many birds among the leaves and tendrils of their margins, and occasionally another small animal, such as a rabbit or a butterfly. The birds are surprisingly numerous there are almost two hundred, all very small, usually three-eighths of an inch or less in size. Despite their tiny dimensions, well over half these birds are pai...

Death in Imam Sajjad`s complete prayer book

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Book review of George Dyson's Turing's cathedral: The origins of the digital universe

In 1936, Alan Turing, sparked by an interest in Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem, introduced the notion of the stored-program Universal Machine. Nine years later, John von Neumann recruited a team of engineers to design and build a concrete realization of Turing’s machine at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Von Neumann’s machine, also known as the IAS or Princeton machine and, popul...

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0. $Date: 2002/08/02 09:02:14 $ Revision History Revision 1.57 11 September 2000 esr New major section “How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity”. Revision 1.52 28 August 2000 esr MATLAB is a reinforcing parallel to Emacs. Corbatoó & Vyssotsky got it in 1965. Revision 1.51 2...