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quadrivium (Q273822)

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liberal arts of astronomy, arithmetic, music and geometry
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    quadrivium
    liberal arts of astronomy, arithmetic, music and geometry

      Statements

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      trivium
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      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
      subject named as
      Quadrivium
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      WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
      06182010-n
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