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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Trivium
Britannica 11thTRIVIUM (Lat. for cross-road, i.e. where three roads meet, from tres, three, and via, road), in medieval educational systems, the curriculum which included grammar, rhetoric and logic. The trivium and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy) ...
Vol. 27, pp. 298-298
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Britannica 11th... e sciences themselves, and not merely the disciplines instrumental to them. The trivium and the quadrivium ( grammar, logic and rhetoric — geometry, astronomy, music and arithmetic) have been habitually caHed arts, when some of them have been named in that sen ...
Vol. 2, pp. 657-660
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