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This paper proposes that there is a wide and important wealth to the philosophy and art of Guarino Guarini, and one of the keys to these matters lies in the structure and content of his Architettura civile, his posthumously-published treatise on architecture. Guarini was an important mathematician in the development of calculus, and his fame is not just that of an architect, perhaps the most learned that Europe has ever thrown up.
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McQuillan, J. Guarino Guarini and his Grand Philosophy of Sapientia and Mathematics. Nexus Netw J 11, 341–349 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-009-0002-z
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