Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Luca Pacioli
Born: 1445
Died: June 29, 1517 (aged 72)
Bio: Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and a seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.
Known for:
- De divina proportione (1509)
- Summa de arithmetica (1494)
- De viribus quantitatis
- De ludo scachorum (1500)
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