Sunday, August 12, 2012

Notes: The Seven Liberal Arts


The Trivium:  The three arts of language pertaining to the mind
Grammar             art of inventing and combining words
Logic                      art of thinking
Rhetoric               art of communication

The Quadrivium:  The four arts of quantity pertaining to matter
Discrete quantity of number
Arithmetic           theory of number
Music                    application of theory of number
Continuous quantity
Geometry           theory of space
Astronomy         application of the theory of space

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