Cover: Illustration to Luca Pacioli’s De divina proportione, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1497 (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
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The first edition of this book was published in paperback in 1999 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France, and in hardcover in 2001 by Abbeville Press, 137 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013, USA.
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