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2 unusual facts about Luca Pacioli


Cuthbert Tunstall

::Based on the Summa of Luca Pacioli, this was the first printed work published in England that was devoted exclusively to mathematics.

Finger counting

This system remained in use through the European Middle Ages, being presented in slightly modified form by Luca Pacioli in his seminal Summa de Arithmetica (1494).


Rhombicuboctahedron

The large polyhedron in the 1495 portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally though controversially attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, is a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water.


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