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December 14

It was upon this date in the year 1497 that Fra Luca de Pacioli of the Seraphic Order of St. Francis, completed the text of the work by which he is best known to printers—De Divina Proportione, a treatise on the proportion of Roman letters. The original book was concerned purely with mathematical proportion and […]