Perhaps your first thought, as was mine, is: “How can Astronomy be an ‘art?’” Furthermore, how can Astronomy be called a ‘liberal’ art? From a very interesting (and worth exploring) website called […]
Astronomy and the Quadrivium
Music and the Quadrivium
Music is delivered to us via our sense of hearing, which when young hears a wider range than when we are older. Our mind processes the complex mathematical formulas of sound waves, […]
Geometry and the Quadrivium
Whist sitting in school, slaving away with compasses and a ruler, one hardly remembers that geometry is the study of the measurement of the earth. Earth. The thing we sit on, utilize, […]
Mathematics and the Quadrivium
Personally, I struggled with Math in school. Faced with a math test, any math test, I froze, cried, banged my head against the desk, and ultimately gave up. I saw mathematics as […]
The Quadrivium
What scholars call the “foundation of Liberal Arts” – the Trivium – is taught in order that one may expand to other subjects, building upon the skills learned. These subjects have been […]
