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Quadrivium   Listen
noun
Quadrivium  n.  The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... boast of her Greek style, and Zonaras her contemporary, but not her flatterer, may add with truth. The princess was conversant with the artful dialogues of Plato; and had studied quadrivium of astrology, geometry, arithmetic, and music, (see he preface to the Alexiad, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... founded at Florence in 1657 by Leopold de' Medici, brother of the grand duke Ferdinand II., at the instigation of Vincenzo Viviani, the geometrician. It was an academy of experiment, a deliberate protest against the deductive science of the quadrivium. Its founder left it when he was made a cardinal, and it lasted only ten years, but the grand folio published in Italian (afterwards translated into Latin) in 1667 is a landmark in the history of science. It contains experiments on the pressure ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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



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