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Luca Pacioli

A Franciscan friar who is widely regarded as the father of modern accounting. While he did not invent double-entry bookkeeping, he was the first to write a treatise on it. He was also the first to describe balance sheets and income statements. He famously said, "A person should not go to sleep at night until the debits equal the credits." He died in 1517.

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29) On 8 February 1498, Fra Luca Pacioli, the Franciscan mathematician and theorist who was Leonardo's intimate friend, dedicated his De Divina Proportione treatise to Ludovico Sforza 'll Moro', greatly praising Leonardo, and suggesting that the Last Supper was finished, and that his model of the 'Sforza Horse' measured 12 braccia ('the said height from the nape to the flat ground'), and that it was of a bronze mass of 200,000 libbre.

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3) Documented by Fra Luca Pacioli, De Divina Proportione, Venice, 1509, in the dedicatory letter composed on 9 February 1498.

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