Talk:Quadrivium
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[edit] Astronomy and the Music of the Spheres
This sentence:
"It also lead to ideas combining the various subjects, such as the music of the spheres."
doesn't strike me as exactly correct. The "music of the spheres" was not the combination of disciplines but rather a description, within Astronomy, of the proportions between the magnitudes, distances, or periods of heavenly bodies. While it is true that such a discipline is numerical (like arithmetic), spatial (like geometry), and temporal (like harmonics (aka "music")), this deflects from the fact that it is essentially an attempt to rationally describe observed natural phenomena.
- I was trying to point out that it was an idea (description if you prefer) which stemmed from the multifaceted elements of the quadrivium.--Henrygb 11:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Both Plato and Cicero discuss the music of the spheres. This is the actual belief that the movement of the planets make noise as they move, but that man cannot hear it because they tune it out. (Cicero compares this to people living near a noisy waterfall who after a while don't notice its sound.) At any rate, this concept predates the quadrivium, which is commonly attributed to Boetheus, by several hundred years. Therefore I am removing the sentence all together.
[edit] Order of Trivium
Why not list the elements of the trivium in this logical order: grammar, logic, rhetoric?
Okay... can you explain that order, tho?
[edit] Study of number
Is there any sort of source for identification of the Quadrivium as a study of number? It feels OR to me. 71.146.143.145 06:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is quite common. A short search [1] turns up examples such as [2] [3] [4] as examples --Henrygb 11:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't this article seem only semi-literate? 24.186.214.2 02:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, get to work, then!
