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(Q273822)

English

quadrivium

liberal arts of astronomy, arithmetic, music and geometry

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trivium
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described by source
New International Encyclopedia
statement is subject of
The New International Encyclopædia/Quadrivium
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reference URL
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Quadrivium
quotation
QUADRIV'IUM / ... / The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by Plato in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work. / ... (English)
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Seven Liberal Arts
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quotation
The expression ... / They are seven ... ; the second group comprises arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, i.e. the mathematico-physical disciplines, known as the artes reales, or physicae. / ... / Socrates having ... / In the "Republic" ... / The intermediate course embraces the mathematical branches, viz. arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, (English)
The Republic
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reference URL
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.8.vii.html
quotation
I should ... / Can we deny that a warrior should have a knowledge of arithmetic? // You mean geometry? // True. / ... / But what do you say of music, ... // Let us ... / And suppose we make astronomy the third ... / True ... / Then ... , let us go on to astronomy, which will be fourth. (English)
contributor to the creative work or subject
Benjamin Jowett

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MathWorld ID
Quadrivium
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WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
06182010-n
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