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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) |