Paciolo: The Man, His Work

Brown, R. Gene; Johnston, Kenneth S.

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“…These 'conventionally accepted facts' from Taylor (Macve 1996, 8) continue to have an ongoing and expanding impact on the public perception of Luca Pacioli. They form the basis for the biographical material in Brown and Johnston's (1963) translation of Pacioli's treatise, the main source for a video published 27 years later to commemorate Pacioli's birth: Luca Pacioli: Unsung Hero of the Renaissance (Jackson,14 These biographies include: in English, Knight (1857), Taylor (1942), Jayawardene (1971), and Rankin (1992; in Spanish, Hernández-Esteve (1994b); and in Italian, Baldi (1589), Boncompagni (1879), Vianello (1896), Ricci (1940), Masotti Biggiogero (1960, Ulivi (1994Ulivi ( , 2009, and Ciocci (2003Ciocci ( , 2009Ciocci ( , 2011Ciocci ( , 2017. 15 Piero della Francesca was one of the most respected artists of his day, and c.30 years older than his kinsman, Pacioli.…”

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Pacioli's Lens: God, Humanism, Euclid, and the Rhetoric of Double Entry

Sangster

2017

The Accounting Review

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This paper investigates why, in 1494, the Franciscan friar and teacher of mathematics, Luca Pacioli, published an instructional treatise describing the system of double entry bookkeeping. In doing so, it also explores the rhetoric and foundations of double entry through the lens of Pacioli's treatise. Recent findings on Pacioli's life and works, his writings, and the medieval accounting archives are combined to identify how he was inspired by his faith and his humanist beliefs to give all merchants access to the practical mathematics and the bookkeeping they required. The paper finds that Pacioli's teaching method was inspired by Euclid, his Franciscan education, and his humanist beliefs, and that Pacioli reveals a simplicity in the then-unrecognized axiomatic foundation of double entry that has been largely overlooked. The findings represent a paradigm shift in how we perceive Pacioli, his treatise, and double entry.

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Pacioli's Lens: God, Humanism, Euclid, and the Rhetoric of Double Entry

Sangster

2017

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Paciolo: The Man, His Work

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