Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (c. 1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as bookkeeping and accounting.
From: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Native Name:
Luca Pacioli Napolitano
Alternative Names:
Luca Paciuolo
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Luca Paciolo
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Fra Luca di Borgo Paciuolo
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Luca di Borgo Pacioli
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Fra Luca di Borgo Paciolo
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Luca di Borgo Paciuolo
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Fra Luca di Borgo Pacioli
From Wikidata (CC0)
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
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