The liberal arts (Q1267788)

Published in the section ``The mathematical tourist'', the article presents photographs of the four sciences arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, personified in sculptures dating from 1556, which can be seen at the town hall of Lemgo in Northern Germany. The author adds some remarks on the quadrivium (these four mathematical sciences) and its history, as well as three further illustrations. No information about the artist or about the instruments by which the sciences are characterized is given.