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Quadrivium

noun
1.
(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy.





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"Quadrivium" Quotes from Famous Books



... read by those of Italy, and the arithmetic of Nicomachus and the geometry of Euclid are known to those of the West."[286] Founder of the medieval scholasticism, {73} distinguishing the trivium and quadrivium,[287] writing the only classics of his time, Gibbon well called him "the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have acknowledged for ...
— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith
... Astronomy. This, together with the trivium, or preparatory group of three subjects—Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic—constituted what was known as the seven liberal arts; but, in the darkest ages, the quadrivium was almost lost sight of, and few ...
— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain


Words linked to "Quadrivium" :   humanities, liberal arts, humanistic discipline, Dark Ages, arts, Middle Ages


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