NOUN
- (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
How To Use quadrivium In A Sentence
- He was the first to identify the group of four canonical sciences (logistic [arithmetic], geometry, astronomy and music), which would become known as the quadrivium in the middle ages. Archytas
- In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
- The traditional quadrivium is essentially the study of pattern, harmony, symmetry and order in nature and mathematics viewed as a reflection of the Divine Order. David Clayton on the Way of Beauty at Thomas More College, New Hampshire
- Boethius seems to have been the first to use the term quadrivium, joining music with the mathematical arts of arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. MUSICAL GENIUS
- Wisdom is then knowledge of these two forms, which are studied by the four sciences, which will later be known as the quadrivium: arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Pythagoreanism
- There Alcuin taught the seven sciences of the "trivium" and "quadrivium", i.e. grammar, rhetoric, and logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Pacioli's four mathematical disciplines are the antique and medieval quadrivium.
- In the Middle Ages, it was the trivium and the quadrivium. Times, Sunday Times
- And yet our curricula still reflect the priorities of the 1893 Committee of Ten, if not the shadows of the medieval trivium and quadrivium.
- The trivium consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
