The Secret of the Rose

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The Seven Liberal Arts plus Medicine surround Philosophy - the love of Wisdom

Learning proceded step by step from the quadrivium which was debated with the trivium. When the seven were mastered Philosophy could then be studied.

The 'quadrivium' included Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music - i.e. the world, the universe and sound

The 'trivium' comprised Rhetoric, Grammar, Dialectic - i.e. the instruments of communication between mortals

 

Music

Rhetoric

Grammar

 
       

Geometry

 

Philosophy

 

Dialectic

   
 

Medicine

   

Astronomy

 
 

Arithmetic