Luca Pacioli
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Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the
Portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495
A woodcut of Pacioli which appears throughout the Summa de arithmetica
The first printed illustration of a rhombicuboctahedron, by Leonardo da Vinci, published in Divina proportione
Woodcut illustrating the proportions of the human face from the second part of Divina proportione, which covers the Vitruvian system
Double-entry bookkeeping
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Double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping in which every financial transaction is recorded with equal and opposite entries - thus "balancing the books
Luca Pacioli
…the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro. Luca Pacioli was born between 1446 and 1448 in the Tuscan…
Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto by Benedetto Cotrugli, cover of 1602 edition; originally written in 1458