The Mediaeval Mind a History of the Development of Thought And Emotion in the M
The Mediaeval Mind a History of the Development of Thought And Emotion in the M
Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941
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Familiarized with these, and practised in their locutions, he taught 1 Ep. 167 (in Migne, Ep. 174). 288 THE MEDIAEVAL MIND BOOK u his pupils rhetoric. After they were instructed in this art, he brought up a sophist, to practise them in disputation, so that practised in this art as well, they might seem to argue artlessly, which he deemed the height of oratory. " l So Gerbert used the classic poets in teaching rhetoric, and doubtless the great prose writers too, with whom he was familiar. Follow...ing Cicero's precept that the orator should be a proficient reasoner, he prepared his young rhetoricians by a course in logic, and completed their discipline with exercises in disputation. Richer also speaks of Gerbert's epoch-making mathe- matical knowledge. 2 In arithmetic he improved the current methods of computation ; in geometry he taught the traditional methods of measurement descended from the Roman surveyors, and compiled a work from Boethius and other sources. For astronomy he made spheres and other instruments, and in music his teaching was the best obtain- able.
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