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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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... contain, at any rate in embryo—sometimes, it may be, in caricature—what we now call Philosophy, Mathematical and Physical Science, and Art. And I doubt if the curriculum of any modern University shows so clear and generous a comprehension of what is meant by culture, as this old Trivium and Quadrivium does. ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley


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


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