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Giovanni Battista Pisani

Giardino aritmetico, title page

Giovanni Battista Pisani, also known as Gio. Battista Pisani, was a 17th-century Genoese mathematician.[1]

Biography

He wrote The First Book of Modern Cursive Letters (Il primo libro di lettere corsive moderne, 1641) about calligraphy,[2] followed by other educational works, Arithmetic Memorial (Memoriale aritmetico, 1644) and Arithmetic Garden (Giardino aritmetico, 1646), intended to solve arithmetic problems that were especially related to merchant activity.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ Cerboni, Giuseppe (1887). Sur l'importance d'unifier les études de la comptabilité (in French). Rome: Imprimerie héritiers Botta. p. 132.
  2. ^ Whalley, Joyce Irene (1980). The Pen's Excellencie: Calligraphy of Western Europe and America. Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books. pp. 188, 205.
  3. ^ Atti della Accademia ligure di scienze e lettere (in Italian). Genoa: Accademia ligure di scienze e lettere. 2003. p. 241.