Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology tillyard The speech captures Wallace's electric

The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others

philosophical exploration of liberal learning: a still-evolving tradition of theory and practice that has dominated and sustained intellectual life and learning in much of the globe for two millennia

the most read work in the Muslim world after the Qur’an and considered by many to be the Summa Theologica of Islam

Nasir al-Dari

Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology tillyard The speech captures Wallace's electricThe quadrivium the classical curriculum comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time, and cosmology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences.