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The Quadrivium For Today

Books & Games for A Classical Approach

to Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

Item List

Euclid

Elements of Geometry

Nicomachus

Introduction to Arithmetic

Nicomachus

Handbook of Harmonics

Pseudo-Iamblichus

Theology of Arithmetic

Ptolemy

Harmonics

Aristides Quintilianus

On Music

Ptolemy

Almagest

Theon of Smyrna

Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato

Porphyry

Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics

Iamblichus

On the Pythagorean Life

Iamblichus

Exhortation to Philosophy

Iamblichus

On the General Science of Mathematics

Iamblichus

On Arithmetic

Proclus

Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements

Proclus

Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

John Philoponus

Commentary on Nicomachus' Arithmetic

Augustine

On Music

Boethius

The Principles of Arithmetic

Boethius

The Principles of Music

Pseudo-Psellus

On the Quadrivium

Georges Pachymeres

On the Quadrivium

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