Luca Pacioli
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Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (c.1445–1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.
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- The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satifaction in the minds of the philosophers.
- As quoted in The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, p. 124
- The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
- From the book De divina proportione
