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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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... College, and Heraclides and Aristarchus anticipated Copernicus by sixteen centuries. No man has surpassed the sculptures of Rhodes, or the paintings of the sixteenth century. The cathedral of Cologne is the offspring of forgotten brains. Such men as Anselm were educated on the Trivium and Quadrivium. Five hundred years ago Merton College could show such men as Geoffrey Chaucer, William of Occam, and John Wickliffe. If the history of science can produce four brighter contemporary names than Napier, ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith


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


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