. The Open court. tions as far apart as the Babylonians and the Aztecs, Egyptians and Chinese, Arabs, Germans, Italians and English. The second volumegives a history of the symbols that have accompanied the great advance ofmathematics from the days of Newton to the present times. Professor Cajoris book, will be indispensable to the historian of mathe-matics.^—The Times Literary Supplement, London. The amount of research that this work represents is extraordinary andthe history will be of great usefulness to —Journal of theAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers. THE OPEN COU
. The Open court. tions as far apart as the Babylonians and the Aztecs, Egyptians and Chinese, Arabs, Germans, Italians and English. The second volumegives a history of the symbols that have accompanied the great advance ofmathematics from the days of Newton to the present times. Professor Cajoris book, will be indispensable to the historian of mathe-matics.^—The Times Literary Supplement, London. The amount of research that this work represents is extraordinary andthe history will be of great usefulness to —Journal of theAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING London SINISM A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHINESE WORLD-VIEW by H. G. CREEL, Ph. D. Table of Contents PART ONE THE BACKGROUND OF SINISM Introtluction Chinese Natural Ihilosopliy PART TWO SINISM III. IV. V. VI. VI I. \ III. ( ) oi and CtMifucianismLao Tse and Lao ismMo Tse Popular ReligionConclusion Price, ^ THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY Chicago. STATLE OF LFAV ERIKSOX I-roiitispicce to The Open Court. The Open Court A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Keligion, the Religion of Science, andthe Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. COPYRIGHT BY OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1930 \olume XLI\ (Xo. 5) MAY, 1930 Xumber 888 AlODERX ASTROXOMY AXD THE XEW COSMOS BY J. V. NASH UXTIL the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Ptolemaicsystem, positing a static earth round which the sun and planetsrevolved, dominated the mind of man. Then came the revolutionarydiscovery of Copernicus, who pried the earth loose from its moor-ings and sent it whirling through space, revolving on its own axis,in its orbit about the sun. The realization that the so-called fixedstars are distant suns followed as a natural sequence; this was oneof the great conceptions of Bruno. Finally, we grew accustomed to speaking of the universe, ofwhich our solar system, as we believed, formed an important it has been reveal
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