“Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni Et Proportionalita” to be sold (economist.com) 31 points by pseudolus 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] davidw 7y ago ↗ The guy certainly made his mark, and lived in interesting times. I enjoyed this book, reviewed here, on Pacioli and that era:https://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2012/12/double-entr... [–] rostifar 7y ago ↗ "The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society" by Alfred Crosby is another great book on this subject.
[–] rostifar 7y ago ↗ "The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society" by Alfred Crosby is another great book on this subject.
[–] gwern 7y ago ↗ FWIW, I recently scanned a translation of the double-entry ledger part: https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/1963-brown-pacioloonaccou...
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