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What geometrician or arithmetician could fail to take pleasure in the symmetries, correspondences, and principles of order observed in visible things? Consider, even, the case of pictures: those seeing by the bodily sense the products of the art of painting do not see the one thing in the one only way; they are deeply stirred by recognizing in the objects depicted to the eyes the presentation of what lies in the idea, and so are called to recollection of the truth - the very experience out of which Love rises. (Plotinus, The Enneads, II.9.16; 1991, p. 129)
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Henderson, D.W., Taimina, D. (2006). Experiencing Meanings in Geometry. In: Sinclair, N., Pimm, D., Higginson, W. (eds) Mathematics and the Aesthetic. CMS Books in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38145-9_4
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