Domenico Griminelli
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Domenico Griminelli
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Domenico Griminelli was a 17th-century Italian mathematician and Catholic priest from Correggio, Emilia-Romagna. He published in 1656 a tutorial book on arithmetic for shopkeepers and merchants, Novissima prattica d'aritmetica mercantile, also known outside Italy and reprinted for two centuries. The book's introduction echoed Plato in declaring numbers to be a divine gift, without which civilization would vanish, and dedicated the work to cardinal Girolamo Gastaldi, the General Treasurer of the
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