quadrivium是什么意思

2024-02-03 10:14:17

quadrivium

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n. （中世纪的）四门学科（算术、几何、天文、音乐）

名词复数：quadrivia

Noun

(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy

The trivium consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. 三门科目由文法、逻辑和修辞学组成；四门科目由算术、几何、天文和音乐组成。
These were carried over in medi?val universities as the [Quadrivium which, together with the [Trivium of grammar, rhetoric and dialectic, constituted the septem liberales arte (seven liberal arts). 西元前六世纪中叶，毕达哥拉斯学派的时代，算术已被视为四种计量或数学科学中的其中一种了。
The trivium consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music 三门科目由文法、逻辑和修辞学组成;四门科目由算术、几何、天文和音乐组成。