Refurio Anachro"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians." — Thelonius Monk
Cool quote, thanks Drew Armstrong!
"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul which does not know that it is counting" — Gottfried Leibnitz in a letter to Christian Goldbach
It's also from Drew's thread, a comment by Dan Weese. Thanks Dan!
Doc Edward Morbius ❌@RefurioAnachro I've recently stumbled across the medieval academic curriculum, including the Seven Liberal Arts.
There are the #trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), and the #quadrivium: maths, geometry, music, and astronomy.
The first three are an input, processing, output function.
The 2nd four are numbers, numbers in space, numbers in time, and numbers in space and time.
Nice, @dredmorbius! Trivium is the origin of the word trivial! I just looked them up, the quadrivium goes back to Plato's proposal in his "The Republic". The trivium is even older.
Funny these are still in use today, as back then continuing studies meant going into philosophy and... theology!
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#history of reasoning, #arithmetic, #geometry, #Plato
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Here's a more chic and vain way to describe the quadrivium:
wikipedia> Morris Kline classifies the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stationary (geometry), moving (astronomy) and applied (music) number.
@RefurioAnachro Yep. I've been having altogether too much fun digging in to philsophy and its history.