April 28, 2006
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Exercise
Review the concepts of integritas, consonantia, and claritas in Aquinas:
“For in respect to beauty three things are essential: first of all,
integrity or completeness, since beings deprived of wholeness are on
this score ugly; and [secondly] a certain required design, or patterned
structure; and finally a certain splendor, inasmuch as things are
called beautiful which have a certain ‘blaze of being’ about them….”– Summa Theologiae Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, I, q. 39, a. 8, as translated by William T. Noon, S.J., in Joyce and Aquinas, Yale University Press, 1957
Review the following three publications cited in a note of April 28, 1985 (21 years ago today):
(1) Cameron, P. J.,
Parallelisms of Complete Designs,
Cambridge University Press, 1976.(2) Conwell, G. M.,
The 3-space PG(3,2) and its group,
Ann. of Math. 11 (1910) 60-76.(3) Curtis, R. T.,
A new combinatorial approach to M24,
Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.
79 (1976) 25-42.Discuss how the sextet parallelism in (1) illustrates integritas, how the Conwell correspondence in (2) illustrates consonantia, and how the Miracle Octad Generator in (3) illustrates claritas.
