Pacioli

Mathematical, Architectural & Proportional Works of Fra Luca Pacioli (c. 1447–1517)

Digital critical editions, multi-language parallel translations, recalibrated 1509 woodcut graphics, and Euclidean dependency apparatus for the treatises of Fra Luca Pacioli of Borgo Sansepolcro, O.F.M., illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci.


Works (Opera)

De Divina Proportione (Venice, 1509 / Vienna, 1889)

Venetiis: Impressum per probum virum Paganinum de Paganinis de Brixia, Kalen. Iunii M.D.VIIII (1509) / Quellenschriften für Kunstgeschichte, ed. Constantin Winterberg, Vienna, 1889.

Pacioli's foundational Renaissance treatise on the Golden Ratio (proportione avente el mezzo e doi extremi), the Thirteen Marvelous Effects of Euclid’s Book XIII, the Five Platonic and Archimedean Solids drawn in perspective by Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian architecture, and the geometric construction of the Roman alphabet.