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Luca Pacioli

Luca Pacioli

c. 1447–1517

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Franciscan mathematician who popularized double-entry bookkeeping — money clarity as a moral and practical craft.

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  1. c. 1447personal

    Birth in Sansepolcro

  2. c. 1464work

    Move to Venice

  3. 1472–1475personal

    Becomes Franciscan friar

  4. 1477work

    First chair in mathematics at Perugia

  5. 1494highlight

    Publication of Summa de arithmetica

  6. 1497highlight

    Collaboration with Leonardo da Vinci begins

  7. 1496–1508work

    De viribus quantitatis

  8. 1499personal

    Flight from Milan

  9. 1509work

    Divina proportione published

  10. c. 1500work

    Chess treatise composed

  11. 1517death

    Death in Sansepolcro

  12. post-1517legacy

    Legacy as father of accounting

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