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Author: Luca Pacioli

Date 1509

Description: The modern history of the golden ratio starts with Luca Pacioli's Divina Proportione of 1509, which captured the imagination of artists, architects, scientists, and mystics with the properties, mathematical and otherwise, of the golden ratio.

Source: Divina Proportione, Paganino dei Paganini, Venice 1509.

 

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Uploaded on December 4, 2009
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