The work of the Open Court Publishing Co : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court . as at the zenith of European fame, but perma-nently broken in health, although by remarkable care of liimself helived to the age of seventy-seven. He lived for nothing but science, butthough conversant with all branches, including medicine, he knewhis forte and rarely an opi
The work of the Open Court Publishing Co : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court . as at the zenith of European fame, but perma-nently broken in health, although by remarkable care of liimself helived to the age of seventy-seven. He lived for nothing but science, butthough conversant with all branches, including medicine, he knewhis forte and rarely an opinion on anything that zeasnot connected with mathematics. Lectures on Elementary Mathematics. P)y J(isi-:rii Louis :. With portrait and hiography ofLagrange. Translated from the French bv T. J. , \72. Cloth, $ net. (4s. M. net.) TTistorical and methodological remarks abound, and are so woven togetherwilh the mathematical material proper, and the whole is so vivified by theclear and almost chatty style of the author as to give the lectures a charm forthe readers not often to be found in mathematical works. —Bulletin .Imcrican Matlicimiticul Society. ARTICLE ON Lonis Lagrange. Bv T. J. JMcCgrmack. Opoi Court. XI,764. 121 THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., GOTTFRIED WILHFXM VON LEIBNITZ. Frontispiece to The Open Court, February, 1902. 12a THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO. GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ. (1646- 1716.) It would be difficult to overestimate the importance or mag-nitude of the labors of Leibniz. His attainments are universal. Hedisfiiiindshed himself alike in history, jurisprudence, loi^ic, meta-physics, mechanics, and mathematics, beiui:; joint founder of theinfinitesimal calculus and inventor of the symbol of intc!j; Descartes Leibniz affirmed that czerythini^ in nature can beexplained mechanically; that occult causes must never be assigned tophenomena; but he differed from Descartes in insisting t
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