The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c12.27

c12.27

⁴ I.e. in relation to the quadrivium. "Non legant in festivis diebus, nisi Philosophos et rhetoricas et quadrivalia et barbarismum et ethicam, si placet." Suter, *Die Mathematik auf den Universitäten des Mittelalters*, Zürich, 1887, p. 56. Roger Bacon gives a still more gloomy view of Oxford in his time in his *Opus minus*, in the *Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores*, London, 1859, Vol. I, p. 327. For a picture of Cambridge at this time consult F. W. Newman, *The English Universities, translated from the German of V. A. Huber*, London, 1843, Vol. I, p. 61; W. W. R. Ball, *History of Mathematics at Cambridge*, 1889; S. Günther, *Geschichte des mathematischen Unterrichts im deutschen Mittelalter bis zum Jahre 1525*, Berlin, 1887, being Vol. III of *Monumenta Germaniae paedagogica*.