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    Fra. Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with...
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    The Portrait of Luca Pacioli is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo de' Barbari, dating to around 1500 and housed in the Capodimonte...
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    Italian title into a Latin one) is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, completed by February 9th, 1498...
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    proportions and proportionality) is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and first published in 1494. It contains a comprehensive summary of Renaissance...
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    usually attributed to the Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli. Today, accounting is facilitated by accounting organizations such as...
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  • of maintaining books of accounts for a sovereign state. The Italian Luca Pacioli, recognized as The Father of accounting and bookkeeping was the first...
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  • director Luca Margaroli (born 1992), Swiss tennis player Luca Marinelli (born 1984), Italian actor Luca Napolitano (born 1982), Italian singer Luca Pacioli (1447–1517)...
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    called the extreme and mean ratio by Euclid, and the divine proportion by Luca Pacioli, and also goes by several other names. Mathematicians have studied the...
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    Vinci illustrated skeletal models of several polyhedra for a book by Luca Pacioli, with text largely plagiarized from della Francesca. Polyhedral nets...
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    Battista Alberti, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli studied linear perspective, wrote treatises on it, and incorporated it...
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    Use of the modern double entry bookkeeping system was described by Luca Pacioli in 1494. The term "waste book" was used in colonial America, referring...
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  • Venice produced the theoretical accounting science by the writings of Luca Pacioli, Domenico Manzoni, Bartolomeo Fontana, the accountant Alvise Casanova...
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    balance. The first published description of the process is found in Luca Pacioli's 1494 work Summa de arithmetica, in the section titled Particularis de...
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    textiles and origami. Some artists such as Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli went so far as to write books on mathematics in art. Della Francesca...
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    Applied innovation extended to commerce. At the end of the 15th century, Luca Pacioli published the first work on bookkeeping, making him the founder of accounting...
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    mathematics under Luca Pacioli and prepared a series of drawings of regular solids in a skeletal form to be engraved as plates for Pacioli's book Divina proportione...
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    illustrated a book on mathematical proportion in art written by his friend Luca Pacioli and called De divina proportione, published in 1509. He was also preparing...
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    Philadelphia a pair of figures. A disputed but famous work, the Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli is in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. This shows the Franciscan mathematician...
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    In truth, its most reliable source is found in the description that Luca Pacioli proposes as a pleasant curiosity [«ligiadro solazo» (f. 122r)], attributing...
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    ISBN 978-1-4549-304-26. Mackinnon, Nick (July 1993). "The Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli". The Mathematical Gazette. 77 (479). Cambridge University Press ({CUP}):...
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    architecture, without reliable evidence. In the Italian Renaissance, Luca Pacioli wrote the influential treatise De divina proportione (1509), illustrated...
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    practice or were business manuals based on sophisticated numeracy. Indeed, Luca Pacioli helped create the banking system of the Italian city-states with double-entry...
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    his art, such as Luca Pacioli. La Roche may have borrowed from or been influenced by several mathematicians, including Chuquet, Pacioli and Philippe Frescobaldi...
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  • of Venice during the Renaissance. He was the original publisher of Luca Pacioli's mathematical works, Summa de arithmetica and De divina proportione,...
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    usurpata da Fra Luca Pacioli, ed. G. Mancini, Rome. Sangster, Alan; Greg Stoner & Patricia McCarthy: "The market for Luca Pacioli’s Summa Arithmetica"...
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    particular account. The first known recorded use of the terms is Venetian Luca Pacioli's 1494 work, Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita...
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    Sarbanes–Oxley Act People and organizations Accountants Accounting organizations Luca Pacioli Development History Research Positive accounting Sarbanes–Oxley Act Misconduct...
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    of the hypothetical packing which surpasses it. The 1495 Portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, includes a glass rhombicuboctahedron...
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  • rule is in the Summa de arithmetica (Venice, 1494. Fol. 181, n. 44) of Luca Pacioli (1445–1514). He presents the rule in a discussion regarding the estimation...
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    Kepler Guidobaldo del Monte John Napier Pedro Nunes William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Ludovico Ariosto Martin Bauzer...
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