“The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found.”

—  Simon Stevin

Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)

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Flemish scientist, mathematician and military engineer 1548–1620

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