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Single Idea 636

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form]

Full Idea

The major Forms of the beautiful are order, symmetry and delimitation, and these are very much objects of the proofs of the mathematical sciences.

Gist of Idea

Beauty involves the Forms of order, symmetry and limit, which can be handled mathematically

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1078a31)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.400