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Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature : A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century / Frederick Herbert Wagman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia University Germanic Studies ; 13Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1942]Copyright date: ©1942Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231918787
  • 9780231885928
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction: Aims and Materials -- II. The Heritage of Ideas -- III. Miraculous Causation and Intervention -- IV. The Persistence of Magic in Nature -- V. Autonomous Force in Nature -- VI. Pansophistic Ideas -- VII. The Search for Rational Causality -- VIII. Experiment and Experience in the Field of Nature -- IX. Experiment and Experience in Society -- Χ. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Looks at the attitude toward the natural sciences expressed in German Baroque prose to indicate to what extent the German intellectual laity of the 17th century had been influenced by scientific advances.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction: Aims and Materials -- II. The Heritage of Ideas -- III. Miraculous Causation and Intervention -- IV. The Persistence of Magic in Nature -- V. Autonomous Force in Nature -- VI. Pansophistic Ideas -- VII. The Search for Rational Causality -- VIII. Experiment and Experience in the Field of Nature -- IX. Experiment and Experience in Society -- Χ. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Looks at the attitude toward the natural sciences expressed in German Baroque prose to indicate to what extent the German intellectual laity of the 17th century had been influenced by scientific advances.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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