TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagman,Frederick Herbert
TI  - Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature: A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century 
T2  - Columbia University Germanic Studies
SN  - 9780231918787
PY  - 1942///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/wagm91878
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231885928.jpg
ER  -