JA 1 THEM A TIC A L SCIENCES. 



naturally excited the reprobation of the Church. Judicial astrology was 

 forbidden in all Christian countries, and condemned by the Holy See. The 

 Catholic professors very properly denounced this chimerical science, as 

 opening a path to fatalism of the most reckless and culpable kind. 



While astrology was prohibited as an occult science, and the Church was 

 anathematizing it, astronomy took her place as one of the seven liberal arts 

 which were taught, for more than a thousand years, at the school of 

 Alexandria. When the University of Paris was being formed upon the 



Fig. 60. The Centaur. After a Miniature of the Fourteenth Century, " Liber de Locis Stellarum 

 Fixarum." Spanish Manuscript. Arsenal Library, Paris. 



model of that celebrated school, astronomy, as a matter of course, was 

 included in the qiinilririiini, which formed the second order of study, and 

 which further consisted of arithmetic, geometry, and music. But the 

 f/iini/ririiii, representing higher education, was followed by a very limited 

 number of students, most of them not getting further than the trivium, 

 which comprised only the primary sciences or the humanities, grammar, 

 rhetoric, and dialectics. 



