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21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

636	Beauty involves the Forms of order, symmetry and limit, which can be handled mathematically [Aristotle]
	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.
	From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1078a31)