Definition of Quadrivium. Meaning of Quadrivium. Synonyms of Quadrivium

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Definition of Quadrivium

Quadrivium
Quadrivium Quad*riv"i*um, n. [L.] The four ``liberal arts,' arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

Meaning of Quadrivium from wikipedia

- From the time of Plato through the Middle Ages, the quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) was a grouping of four subjects or arts—arithmetic, geometry, music...
- and Logic (Trivium) and Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, and Astronomy (Quadrivium). Pinturicchio represents each of these figures as celestial women, accompanied...
- be divided into the trivium of rhetoric, grammar, and logic, and the quadrivium of astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and music. The modern sense of the...
- Carolingian Renaissance, when it was coined in imitation of the earlier quadrivium. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were essential to a classical education...
- education in Europe was provided by religious schools as part of the Quadrivium. Formal instruction in pedagogy began with Jesuit schools in the 16th...
- topics. By the end of the 18th century, in addition to the trivium and quadrivium of the Middle Ages, the definition of a classical education embraced study...
- introductory curriculum involving grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and of the Quadrivium, a curriculum involving the "mathematical arts" of arithmetic, geometry...
- liberal arts of the Trivium like grammar, logic, and rhetoric and of the Quadrivium like arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. During the Middle Ages...
- preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric and dialectic or logic–and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The earliest universities...
- historian of science and historian of technology, an expert on the medieval quadrivium and geodesy, and a pioneer of the history of cartography. Lindgren is...