quadrivium
/kwo-driv-ee-uhm/US // kwɒˈdrɪv i əm //UK // (kwɒˈdrɪvɪəm) //
四分法,四维空间,四分体,四合院
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n.名词 noun
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plural quad·riv·i·a [kwo-driv-ee-uh]. /kwɒˈdrɪv i ə/.
- : the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
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These subjects were the Trivium, and the more advanced Quadrivium.
After completing the trivium, those who wished for higher culture studied the quadrivium.
Among the old Romans, a trivium meant a place where three ways met, and a quadrivium where four, or what we now call a cross-road.
Likewise arithmetic and the rest of the quadrivium have place in the clerics education.
Passing to the Quadrivium, we find that Fulbert had studied its four branches under Gerbert.
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