ABSTRACT
Humanism brought philosophical and scientific thought into line with each other; Plato and his admiration of mathematical reason ascended over the views of Aristotle. This mathematical and deductive approach, as opposed to the more Aristotelian or experimental one, gained considerable attention in the Renaissance, as Humanism preferred Plato to Aristotle, thus giving a new lease of life to the mathematical theories of Pythagoras, in which the former based himself. The Platonic notion that circles, triangles and other geometric figures were more perfect than the observed reality was perfectly matched to the Humanist mind. The same happened with the revelation brought upon by Pythagoras that makes the coincidence between harmonic consonances and the ratios between the first integers.
