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GIA4751891: The constellation represented is that of Bouvier (or Boots), which supports the hair of Berenices with the left hand. Page of an 18th century manuscript based on the original manuscript “Astronomica” by Biasino da Parma (Blaise of Parma) (1425-1457) dating from the 15th century, Unknown artist, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4752354: The Liberal Arts: the Trivium and the Quadrivium - in “” Margarita Philosophica”” by Gregor Reisch (1467-1525). Bale, 1517. In medieval teaching, quadrivium referred to the four mathematical arts: arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Quadrivium is distinguished from Trivium, which includes grammar, rhetoric and logic (dialectic). These two branches of knowledge constituted the seven liberal arts, a concept derived from Greek philosophy., Reisch, Gregor (d.1525) / Bridgeman Images