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"Pacioli"

Presented to
Roberto Trujillo and the Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University

The sixth piece of the Buckminster Fuller Presentation Series is drawn from the Leonardo da Vinci Series On January 30, 2002, this piece was presented to Roberto Trujillo, the head of Special Collections at Stanford University for the Buckminster Fuller Collection, now held in the Green Library Special Collections. This piece is named for Fra Luca Pacioli (1445-1514), a well-known Renaissance master of mathematics and sacred geometry. He wrote the first treatise exploring the Golden Mean in great detail entitled "De Divina Proportione" which was illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli's other book, the "Summa" published in 1494 gives a summary of the mathematics known at that time. It studies arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry and provided a basis for the major progress in mathematics which took place in Europe shortly after this time. Return to Presentation Series Introduction Page