The Ancient Modality of the Unity of Science and Aesthetics: the Unity of Beauty and the Sciences of Mathematics and Physics

We should pay attention to the issue of the relationship between science and aesthetics, especially mathematics and aesthetics, in the history of western aesthetics. In ancient Greece, Pythagoras and his school raised the curtain of Greek aesthetics thought. It is Pythagoras who combined mathematics and aesthetics, and thus opened the trend of uniting beauty and sciences of mathematics and physics. Through Democritus' development, Plato and Aristotle paid much attention to the relation between ancient Greek aesthetics which is the source of Western aesthetics and forms the tradition of the close combination of aesthetics and science and its unique style different from Chinese aesthetics.