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The seven liberal arts depicted in a stained glass window.

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The Seven Liberal Arts were thought of as the pillars of knowledge during the Middle Ages.

Vitruvius

  1. Astronomy - the study of the laws of the heavens, planets and stars.
    Grammar - the study of orderly, rational meaning in written expression.
    Music - the auditory, visual and mental study of the harmonies of sound.
    Dialectic - the argumentative discourse for discovering the verity of things.
    Arithmetic - the understanding, & discovery of numbers & quantitative order.
    Rhetoric - the comprehension of verbal, written and spoken discourse.
    Geometry - the quantification of spatial, architectural and abstract arrangements.

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