Bibliography & Cited Works¶
Primary Incunable, Classical, Medieval & Early Modern Sources Cited in the 1494 Summa
Authoritative register of primary treatises and editions referenced across Fra Luca Pacioli’s Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita (Venice, 1494) and the GEOMETOR critical commentary.
Al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala — al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā (c. 780 – c. 850)¶
Author: al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā (c. 780 – c. 850)
Locus / Imprint: Latin translation of Robert of Chester / Gerard of Cremona
De Re Aedificatoria Libri Decem — Alberti, Leon Battista (1404 – 1472)¶
Author: Alberti, Leon Battista (1404 – 1472)
Locus / Imprint: Florence, 1485
De Sphaera et Cylindro — Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – 212 BC)¶
Author: Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – 212 BC)
Locus / Imprint: Book I
Dimensio Circuli (On the Measurement of the Circle) — Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – 212 BC)¶
Author: Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – 212 BC)
Locus / Imprint: Propositions 1–3
De Institutione Arithmetica — Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c. 480 – 524 AD)¶
Author: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c. 480 – 524 AD)
Locus / Imprint: Books I–II
De Institutione Musica — Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c. 480 – 524 AD)¶
Author: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (c. 480 – 524 AD)
Locus / Imprint: Books I–V
Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi in artem Geometrie — Campanus of Novara (c. 1220 – 1296)¶
Author: Campanus of Novara (c. 1220 – 1296)
Locus / Imprint: Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, May 25, 1482
Artis Magnae, sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus — Cardano, Gerolamo (1501 – 1576)¶
Author: Cardano, Gerolamo (1501 – 1576)
Locus / Imprint: Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1545, Cap. I
Elements (Elementa Geometriae) — Euclid of Alexandria (fl. c. 300 BC)¶
Author: Euclid of Alexandria (fl. c. 300 BC)
Locus / Imprint: Books I–XIII (with Campanus Books XIV–XV)
De elementis arismetice artis — Jordanus Nemorarius (fl. early 13th century)¶
Author: Jordanus Nemorarius (fl. early 13th century)
Locus / Imprint: Books I–X
Liber Abaci — Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci, c. 1170 – c. 1250)¶
Author: Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci, c. 1170 – c. 1250)
Locus / Imprint: Pisa, 1202 / rev. 1228
Practica Geometriae — Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci, c. 1170 – c. 1250)¶
Author: Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci, c. 1170 – c. 1250)
Locus / Imprint: Pisa, 1220
De Divina Proportione — Pacioli, Fra Luca (c. 1447 – 1517)¶
Author: Pacioli, Fra Luca (c. 1447 – 1517)
Locus / Imprint: Venice: Paganino de’ Paganini, June 1, 1509
Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita — Pacioli, Fra Luca (c. 1447 – 1517)¶
Author: Pacioli, Fra Luca (c. 1447 – 1517)
Locus / Imprint: Venice: Paganino de’ Paganini, Nov. 10–20, 1494
Correspondence on the Problem of Points (La règle des partis) — Pascal, Blaise & Pierre de Fermat¶
Author: Pascal, Blaise & Pierre de Fermat
Locus / Imprint: Paris & Toulouse, July – October 1654
De prospectiva pingendi — Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)¶
Author: Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)
Locus / Imprint: Borgo Sansepolcro / Urbino, c. 1475
Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus — Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)¶
Author: Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)
Locus / Imprint: Urbino MS Vat. Urb. lat. 632, c. 1485
Trattato d’abaco — Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)¶
Author: Francesca, Piero della (c. 1412 – 1492)
Locus / Imprint: Borgo Sansepolcro MS, c. 1470
Algorismus Vulgaris — Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195 – c. 1256)¶
Author: Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195 – c. 1256)
Locus / Imprint: Paris, c. 1230
De Architectura Libri Decem — Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (1st century BC)¶
Author: Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (1st century BC)
Locus / Imprint: Book III, Cap. 1