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Luca Pacioli. Summa de arithmetica 1494 work on mathematics. The Particularis de computis et scripturis section contains the first description of double-entry bookkeeping in a printed book.
Luca Pacioli. Divina proportione 1509 work on geometry and the 'divine proportion', illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, Pacioli's friend and collaborator.
James Peele. The maner and fourme how to kepe a perfecte reconying Published in 1553, Jame’s Peele’s The maner and fourme how to kepe a perfecte reconying, is the first extant original work on accounting in English
Jan Ympyn Christoffels. Nieuwe instructie 1543 influential Dutch work on bookkeeping, translated into French and English soon after publication.